What Constantin had said about sending the Ndebele people east to dig canals was not mere talk. Geological surveys had already been completed, and a massive project was ready to begin.
The East African government named it the "Central Canal" project. Its main purpose was to link the three major rivers within Central Province and develop their value for navigation.
From north to south, these three major rivers were the Wami River, the Little Rhine River (Luvugo River), and the Rufiji River.
The Wami–Little Rhine River system stretched from the semiarid Dodoma region through inland marshes in the Morogoro region, all the way to the coastal cities, finally reaching the Bagamoyo region. Its drainage basin covered roughly 62,000 square kilometers, of which the Wami River basin accounted for around 43,000 square kilometers and the Little Rhine River basin around 18,000 square kilometers. There were approximately twelve lakes larger than 0.1 square kilometers within the basin, and Tanzania's famous Morogoro National Park and Sadani National Park from the previous world also lay within it.
In the previous world, this basin had been one of Tanzania's more economically developed regions. Tanzania's largest city, Dar es Salaam, and its capital, Dodoma, were both located within it.
Likewise, it was currently East Africa's most developed region. Three of East Africa's top ten cities—First Town, Dar es Salaam city, and Bagamoyo city—were located here, along with Dodoma city, the capital of Plateau Province. Its future potential for development was enormous.
The Rufiji River basin had been Tanzania's largest basin in the previous world, covering approximately 177,400 square kilometers, or one-fifth of the country's total area. The Rufiji River was also Tanzania's largest river. This basin supplied roughly 25% of Tanzania's renewable water resources. Its elevation ranged from sea level at the Indian Ocean to mountainous