The 191 kilometer-long canal linking the Siret river in Romania to the country’s rich, fertile Baragan plain never caught the imagination of former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. The project only finally got going in 1986, three years before his demise, and then halted after the fall of communism.
Now with a price tag the government puts at €5.5 billion ($6.1 billion), the irrigation channel is part of a mission to rescue crops and protect an agricultural industry that’s critical to the economy and to Europe’s supply chain.
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