With just a few words from Ernst, the people below had to run themselves ragged. While backward industries were to be relocated northward, where they would be moved could not be decided casually. Even backward industries were valuable resources to East Africa. After all, East Africa's industrial scale was not yet large, and demand was far from sufficient, so even relocating outdated industries required investigation and assessment.
Ernst said rather unscrupulously, "I think Jezira City is very well situated. It lies on the Gezira Plain, has a certain agricultural foundation, and sits right beside the Nile River, so it does not lack water resources. We can focus on developing chemical industries and other heavily polluting industries there. That way, it will neither affect our domestic environment nor hinder trade with Egypt."
The Nile River flowed from south to north and was an international river, mainly involving East Africa, Egypt, and the Abyssinian Empire.
International rivers generally tended to involve international disputes, chiefly over water resources. Most rivers in the upper Nile basin, in South Sudan, ultimately converged into the Nile River.
Jezira City lay along the final stretch of the Nile River within East Africa. If heavily polluting industries were established there, it would indeed be extremely unscrupulous. East Africa, situated upstream, would inevitably pollute the Nile River waters within Egypt.
As Egypt's mother river, the Nile supplied most of its drinking and irrigation water. Thus, Ernst's idea was exceedingly dangerous.
Yet East African officials rather approved of this. People of this era had no concept of environmental protection, and industrial development inevitably caused pollution. East Africa's industrial wastewater was all discharged into rivers and the sea.
At present, East Africa's main industrial zones were concentrated along the eastern coast, around Lake Malawi, and in the central region. Therefore, East