What if the following depression was flooded by building a dam to block the Aras river?
Geographically the aras river flow trought a 10 km wide choke point.
You can use the mountains and build a series of 2 km, 1 km, 2 km and 1 km dam to cut the flow of water and create a lake.
There is almost no reason to do that instead of a canal, but let say that Stalin decide to create this giant lake during/after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran because he made a agreement with the Iraqi government to irrigate Iraq in exchange of connecting the Caspian sea with Persian sea by using the Tigris and providing food.
So what would be the climatic impact and geopolitical impact?
Pro:
Geographically the aras river flow trought a 10 km wide choke point.
You can use the mountains and build a series of 2 km, 1 km, 2 km and 1 km dam to cut the flow of water and create a lake.
There is almost no reason to do that instead of a canal, but let say that Stalin decide to create this giant lake during/after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran because he made a agreement with the Iraqi government to irrigate Iraq in exchange of connecting the Caspian sea with Persian sea by using the Tigris and providing food.
So what would be the climatic impact and geopolitical impact?
Pro:
- A shipping route that isn't controled by NATO, isn't frozen in winter or isn't throught siberia assuming that Iraq is allied
- Crop irrigation for iraq
- Water reserve in case of drought for surrounding countries
- More rain fall for the region
- Cost of the dams and locks for the rivers
- Cost of the relocalisation of the Iranians and Armenians
- Lost of farmlands
- Lost of historical cities
- Might piss off Turkey and Iran
Last edited: