★ The Great Man-Made River is a network of pipes that supplies water to the Sahara Desert in Libya.
★ It is the largest underground network of pipes and aqueducts in the world.
★ It consists of more than 1,300 wells, most more than 500 m deep, and supplies 6,500,000 m³ of fresh water per day to the cities of Tripoli, Benghazi, Sirt and elsewhere.
★ Muammar al-Gaddafi has described it as the "Eighth Wonder of the World."
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