Kapolan City's innovations in water pump technology were also a microcosm of East Africa's national agricultural development in recent years. Of course, water conservancy affected not only agriculture, but also cities, shipping, and much more.
Kapolan City received relatively little natural rainfall. Without advanced and comprehensive water conservancy facilities, it could not have become Bohemia Province's newly planned cotton-growing base.
For instance, cotton could also be grown in eastern Bohemia Province, where rainfall was relatively abundant, but its quality still fell short of that in the western regions. Cotton grown in arid or semi-arid areas was generally of better quality, and the first problem to solve when planting cotton and other crops in such regions was the water supply.
The most outstanding example was the Somali cotton-growing region. Water Conservancy Construction in the Somalia region had turned the Shebelle River and Juba River basins into world-renowned agricultural producing areas.
Kapolan City was the same. Its water conservancy facilities had begun construction in the 1980s, developed at high speed in the 1990s, and basically taken shape. Completing such water conservancy projects in barely more than a decade naturally could not have happened without the help of black laborers.
As a relatively young nation, East Africa's exploitation of black laborers had reached its extreme over the past two decades. Without their sacrifice, East African agriculture as a whole could not have so swiftly caught up with other countries.
Even the United States, with its relatively short history, had undergone more than a century of large-scale modern development. For East Africa to erase the gap with Europe, America, and other regions in just a few decades, the sacrifices involved were inevitably astronomical.
After completing his work, the investigator from the Kapolan City Water Conservancy Bureau did not hurry away. He was quite interested