After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 798

They discussed the other two territories first because the issues and concerns for the satellites were much deeper and broader than what Alterra had to fix.

After all, unlike Alterra, the resources they could manipulate in the other two were very limited.

Other than adding parks, several underground construction was planned, and Althea would be assigning someone from the Engineering team to determine the sustainable sizes and areas for the population and their needs.

However, it probably wouldn’t be perfect and they estimated a few losses in the population regardless, but they did their best to consider everything. _{freewebnøvel.com}

Then they shifted back to Alterra, where they’d have a lot of control over.

"Our water sources must be secured," Althea said, looking at the representatives of the construction team.

She looked at Oslo and Brianna, the Terran sub-lead of the construction team, "We’ll need to create more reservoirs or storage ponds from lake water."

Of course, the ponds should still be able to have other uses like park ponds.

They would also build dams in redirected areas—of course, this was not to stop the river water going downstream for others as well.

…this was assuming no one upstream decided to do just that, of course.

She looked at Tanod and Mauru, the newest official captains (they were given a lot of contribution points by virtue of their roles in the Guia-Alterra war). "I need you to study the territories upstream."

This was, so far, the only problem she could think of in terms of water sources (except for them possibly drying up).

Just as the world had a regeneration rate, the water also healed itself after a while, so they didn’t have to worry too much about people upstream poisoning their water. However, they wouldn’t be able to stop it if people decided to stop the water upstream.

It was normally not a problem because the river was wide and the people here wouldn’t have the technology, the skills, and time to build large dams, but in case of a drought, when the river would be dryer and narrower, nobody could tell what would be done.

Alterra was fortunate enough to be close to not only a river, but also a tributary from the mountain spring heading towards it. When they expanded, they would also cover another tributary from the mountains, which was a very ideal arrangement. Of course, they could also access it even if it was currently outside of the territory walls.

However, the main water source remained to be the river, which had an upstream (South) and a Downstream (North), heading to what was probably a bigger body of water.

Maybe they’d get to explore that route someday, but now was not that time.

The Xeno continent was large and there was still too much of the geography they didn’t know about, but for now, they could only make do with the information they had about the immediate region.

"You may need to sprint and you may request as many health potions in the pharmacy as you need." Sprinting was really consuming of health and it was oftentimes not worth it, but this was too important in gathering information

She really wouldn’t put it below the people in Xeno to cut off everyone else’s path to survival to keep their own.

This surprised the aborigines indeed. They had heard of a few territories losing access to their water sources during droughts, but they just assumed it was because the river dried off. Now, they knew that it was also possible to be cut off by man.

They also considered what to do in the event of the river really drying off.

Even if their river was cut off, they still had the mountain springs.

They would also build massive underground tanks using dense concrete lined with waterproofing membranes (which were improved versions of the material discovered by Honey Guevarra).

They would definitely be laborious to make, but they should also be very sturdy and would be able to hold the entire territory’s source of water even if the drought lasted a month.