[subtitle] For Thousands Of Years, The People Of North Eastern Africa Have Relied On The Nile River As Their Primary Source Of Life Sustaining Water.
Alternate title: Cry me a (Nile) river.
Well, I don’t give a dam about this.
Lake Nasser is 2030 square miles, which makes it 1/5th the size of Lake Erie, just to put it in perspective.
I checked google Earth and see no canals or farmland in areas surrounding the lake. Lots of farmland downstream from the lake.
It’s just one dam thing after another.
Never mind the missing natural fertilizer. The biggest problem that reservoir may yet produce is the false water table created by its hydraulic pressure on the desert sand. The geology of the area is the main reason the US backed off from helping build the Aswan High. Maybe the Russians, who did build it, will bring a bag of corks when that water table breaks thru?
Restructuring the eco-system of an arid region dependent on the Nile as it's flowed for thousands of years can't happen without considerable disruption and dislocations of peoples, plants and animals.
And if the claim about that nasty parasite is true, probably scores of thousands, at the least, have fallen victim to it.
The simplistic, though perhaps not the most efficient solution, IMHO would be to suction dredge the silt on the upstream side of the dam, where it accumulates, and barge it down the river to the delta. As I understand it, removal of silt by dredging is an ongoing maintenance issue with most major dams.
Snail fever was one of the plagues of Egypt : )
FTA: This is further expedited by the threat of rising sea levels and climate change
Maybe they could release a lot of water from time to time to fix the various issues. Any article that uses “Sustainability” and climate change and says the sea is rising is not to believed.
Mr Rohl does NOT like the Aswan.
He is probably right.