Was it ever built? Is that a picture of it? If it was built, did it accomplish any of its goals? Or was it just a canal to nowhere?
It was built, construction was stopped and started a few different times. Of course, there were complaints by Islamofascists inside and outside Egypt that the water was headed to Israel; there were phony environmentalists complaining that the farm runoff that comprises part of the water supply (from the Delta) contained harmful chemicals, because, y’know, farmers love to dump harmful chemicals on their crops. /s