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I mean that I haven’t kept up to date with the situation there, and I don’t know if in the past this region and this dam were administered any better or not. I’m just assuming that the NATO intervention and the fracturing of the country into civil wars is to blame here.

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according to Derna's deputy mayor quoted in [1] "the dams have not been maintained since 2002", so it seems unlikely that NATO intervention is to blame (though that was my kneejerk assumption too). the situation in Libya post NATO intervention certainly contributed to the negligence, but it has been going on for years at that point.

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/12/infrastructure-in-l...

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