How about harvesting water from the oceans? Novel idea I know.<p>I wonder what situation in Africa would be like if nuclear reactors were built to be cooled on seawater and excess steam was collected as semi-clean water that is a lot easier to purify already. And these useless solar power plants were replaced with solar-based water purification facilities. Wells exist too... Water is literally everywhere, the only problem is how deep you need to dig.<p>And it's not like I am making this up, nuclear power plants were proven to be suitable for desalination, and there's no issue with water evaporation in the middle of the desert, is there?<p>Africa was colonized once, it can be colonized again. It could be a central hub of power and water generation that sells it to the entire world, and noone likes Russia anyway. On top of that, this would naturally create jobs.<p>I really wonder where this "$133.7 billion each year from official aid, grants, loans to the private sector, remittances, etc." gets spent considering that what I proposed doesn't cost that much and could be integrated gradually over many years, throughout which there's "$133.7 billion" every single year, just think for a moment how much money is that. Most expensive part of this would be building a seawater pipeline to the suitable location, so what? I guess noone wants to do it because it's not going to move oil...