Egypt to construct world’s largest seawater desalination plant

Egypt Independent ^ | November 15, 2017 | unattributed

[gymbeau]

Thanks for letting me know what’s shaking over there...

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.

[SunkenCiv]

Not sure how old that is, sort of rings a bell. During the New Kingdom, the pharaohs dug a canal connecting the eastern branch of the Nile (in the delta) with the Gulf of Suez.

[SunkenCiv]

regarding the GERD dam project in Ethiopia:

[snip] Fashoda Institute states that Egypt’s Nile water crisis has been markedly aggravated, politically, in recent years as Ethiopia continues building the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile, which many Egyptians have claimed would reduce the flow of Blue Nile waters to Egypt: “The Ethiopian Government has said that all studies point to the reality that the impact on water flow would be minimal. The former Egyptian Government of Mohammed Morsi, however, used the charge against Ethiopia as a political distraction from the turmoil in the months leading to Morsi’s removal”.[/snip]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3096344/posts

[SunkenCiv]

regarding some Qattara Depression, proposals:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1787143/posts?page=11#11

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3096344/posts?page=16#16

[SunkenCiv]

a bit more:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3343030/posts?page=17#17

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2096856/posts?page=19#19

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1562135/posts?page=27#27

sidebars:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2636761/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1069653/posts

[BwanaNdege]

BwanaNdege notes above (#23) that the Nile kicks 1,400 cubic meters per second into the Mediterranean. It's a wild guess, but due to Lake Nasser's surface area and the length of the river, and based on some old rules of thumb (I've got a big thumb collection), evaporative losses are probably about twice that.

"The flow rate of the Bahr al Jabal (White Nile) at Mongalla, South Sudan is almost constant throughout the year and averages 1,048 m3/s (37,000 cu ft/s). After Mongalla, the Bahr Al Jabal enters the enormous swamps of the Sudd region of South Sudan. More than half of the Nile's water is lost in this swamp to evaporation and transpiration. The average flow rate of the White Nile at the tails of the swamps is about 510 m3/s (18,000 cu ft/s)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile

IRRC, the Jonglei Canal was intended to bypass much of the Sudd and increase the amount of water delivered downstream. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonglei_Canal

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, good info.

There used to be a navigable canal, cut right through the Sudd, and maintained by periodically bashing the barges against the encroaching banks.