How to develop water-saving agriculture was indeed a new challenge for East Africa at present. After all, this was a new undertaking involving the entire country, with no historical experience to draw upon.
Ernst first emphasized, "The foundation of water-saving agriculture is living within our means, not saving merely for the sake of saving. After all, the essence of developing water-saving agriculture is to improve the efficiency of water-resource utilization, thereby promoting agricultural productivity. Rationally using water sources and sustainably nourishing agricultural, industrial, social, and residential water needs is our ultimate goal."
Regarding this, the Ministry of Water Conservancy stated, "Your Majesty, following your instructions, we have established a broadly feasible plan. We will begin with the allocation of water sources to resolve the nationwide strain on water use."
"First, one point must be made clear: East Africa is not a country lacking freshwater resources. On the contrary, the Empire possesses relatively abundant water resources."
"Thus, the issue with the nation's freshwater resources mainly lies in their uneven distribution across time and space. Over the next ten years, we plan to first construct a number of water-diversion projects, with the south as the Empire's principal area of water scarcity and relatively tight industrial and agricultural water supplies."
"We will use Orange Province, Baden Province, and Hechingen Province as pilot regions, constructing large-scale water-diversion projects."
The areas of Orange Province, Baden Province, and Hechingen Province roughly corresponded to the junction of South Africa and Botswana in Ernst's previous life, the edge of the Kalahari Desert, and the northern part of the South African Plateau.
Annual precipitation there gradually rose from west to east, transitioning from two hundred millimeters to eight hundred millimeters, with areas receiving less than six hundred millimeters accounting for the majority.
Places receiving under two hundred millimeters of