Sub-Cairo-Aquifer Development Project

The Sub-Cairo-Aquifer Development Project is a defunct engineering project that appears in Call of Duty: Black Ops III.
The Aquifer Project was intended to provide drought relief to the residents of the Egyptian capital city of Cairo and the surrounding areas, in a bid to stave off a water war between Egypt and the nations of the Nile River Coalition.
When the NRC joined the Common Defense Pact in 2040, following Kenya's admission in 2039, to secure funds for local dam projects along their stretches of the Nile, Egypt voiced concern that earlier regional treaties on water rights were being violated. With the dam projects set to become a reality and water levels in the Egyptian Nile already starting to fall, in 2048 a joint project funded by Egypt's Winslow Accord allies, the USA, Saudi-Arabia and Japan, was embarked upon. The project was an ambitious program to exploit the natural subterranean sand-stone aquifer under the city of Cairo and the surrounding desert.
In order to access the water deposits, titanic mobile water refineries were constructed. These huge, slow-moving tracked vehicles were drilling and mining platforms crossed with silt separation and water purification systems. They were intended to drill down into the porous sand-stone vault systems in the underlying bedrock, both expanding and extending them, in order to provide ample potable water for the Egyptian populace.
As global temperatures continued to rise due to climate change, the Sahara Desert encroached ever deeper into Egypt's populated regions, forcing Egyptians to migrate along the banks of the Nile and into Cairo itself; entire towns and villages were evacuated and given up to the shifting sands. To accommodate for the massive influx, in 2050 mega-scale engineering projects began in Cairo. They consisted of massive, self-contained tower blocks reaching up to 200 stories high.
As the NRC's dam projects came online, starting with Kenya in 2053 and Sudan's in 2055, the amount of water reaching Egypt fell by 20% and tensions rose as Egyptian agriculture began to fail. Despite the promise of the Aquifer Project, when Ethiopia completed her dams in 2059, Egypt was now barely able to meet her water requirements. Thus she declared war on the NRC in hopes of being able to destroy the NRC's dams, the first war in modern history to be fought over water rights.
Two years into the conflict, the Aquifer project began to deliver water to the thirsty population but the relief provided was short lived. After just one year, the structurally weakened aquifers began to collapse, causing earth-tremors and subsidence in Cairo and the surrounding area. This knocked out the new water system and caused major structural damage to the city's housing projects.
The failure of the Aquifers would lead to riots within Egypt over water shortages and ultimately force a parched Egyptian army to retreat from NRC territory in 2063, while the NRC would soon launch its own invasion of Egypt and place Cairo under siege. The mobile water refineries themselves, meanwhile, have been abandoned to be reclaimed by the Sahara sands. However, during the conflict at least one of these platforms would be taken over by NRC forces as a makeshift fortress.
The drills used by the platforms were made out of synthetic diamond due to its high hardiness. They were manufactured on the self-sufficient platforms themselves.
==Gallery==
Sand Castle Gallery Database Image 1 BO3.PNG|Mobile refinery in 2064
Aquifer Project Concept art by Wardenlight Studio BO3.jpg|Concept art by Wardenlight Studio
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