Peace through Water Foundation (PTW) is teamed with Blue Majestic International, Inc. (BMI) and its affiliated companies on humanitarian projects throughout the world. PTW orchestrates the funding and approves all humanitarian efforts. BMI serves as the Project Manager and provides technical expertise. While a number of projects are under consideration in remote areas, our primary focus has been on projects in Africa, the Middle East and Central America. Major among these are the care, feeding and education of less fortunate children in Panama and Mexico as well as providing fresh water to millions of people in Africa and the Middle East. The largest of these projects by far is the Okapi Pipelines Project.
In the arid regions of Africa and the Middle East, the most precious need is clean, fresh drinking water. Currently, millions of people die each year from either lack of water or from drinking contaminated water. At the same time, many nearby fresh water rivers flow unabated into the Atlantic Ocean. Thus the problem is not the lack of water, but the lack of an adequate distribution system. It is to this end that the Okapi Pipelines Project is dedicated. When completed, fresh water will be transported by pipe from the Congo River to Lake Chad, Walvis Bay and to Port Sudan on the Red Sea.
Lake Chad is the major fresh water source for Cameroon, Chad, Southern Libya, Niger and Nigeria. As population around Lake Chad has grown, overuse has shrunk the Lake to 8% of its original size in less than 40 years. Conflicts between farmers and cattlemen have become commonplace. Unless this situation is reversed, the potential for more serious confrontations appear inevitable. While less publicized, the sharing of Lake Chad water among riparian nations is perhaps even more critical than those facing the countries of the Nile River Basin.
The pipelines to Port Sudan and Walvis are designed to provide fresh water to Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan and the Middle East for the former and to Namibia and South Africa for the latter. All three pipelines are anticipated to take seven to ten years to complete and to cost in excess of 30 Billion USD. All three pipelines will be passing through areas of little employment and no medical facilities. The Peace Through Water Foundation plans to hire up to 50,000 indigenous personnel. Thirty-six to sixty villages will be built along the pipelines to accommodate local employees and their dependents. Each village will house 500 to 1500 people and will include a medical dispensary, a training center, a school, a cafeteria, a recreation center, a market center, a church and a nursery to develop saplings for reforestation. Agriculture development will be a part of the village where food will be grown to help support the inhabitants of each region.
