莫力庙水库是座沙坝平原水库,位于沙原上。建库前,这里是数十里连绵的沙丘,既无耕地,又少人烟。水库四周十几里内没有居民点,没有村屯,水库建设者们每天要到离工地十里、二十里的地方去住宿。气候也很恶劣,春季风多雨少,大风一起,沙土飞场,天昏地暗,有时对面不见人;夏季酷热,气候干燥,真有“鸟飞不下,兽挺亡群”之感。施工初期在沙丘上几度打井未成,给生活造成了一定的困难。至于交通条件、 Mo Li Miao reservoir dam is a plain reservoir, located in the sand. Before the founding of the reservoir, here is dozens of miles of sand dunes, there is no cultivated land, but also fewer people smoke. There are no settlements within a few dozen miles around the reservoir and there is no village. Reservoir builders go to accommodation ten miles a day and twenty miles a day. The climate is also very harsh, less rainy spring monsoon, gale, sand flying field, dusk dark, and sometimes not seen across the street; summer hot, dry climate, there is really . In the early stages of construction, the wells were hit several times on the sand dunes, causing some difficulties to life. As for traffic conditions,