For months now, after the country’s vice president Taban Deng, made public a plan to have a half-completed colonial-era Jonglei Canal project revived, protracted debates flood the South Sudanese social media. Clear-cut and distinct camps emerged. On the one hand, a group comprising mainly academia and some members of the public want the plan halted but on the other hand a need for the revival of the colonial-era project is being advocated for by those suggesting that a completed Jonglei Canal would mitigate the recurring floods in the country.