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To: Wonder Warthog
The Nile is already pretty much "tapped out". Much more and there won't "be" a Nile.

"The annual mean, representative of the current state of the Nile, is 1.4 × 103 m3 s−1" [1,400 cubic meters per second] River Discharge into the Mediterranean Sea

"the plant is expected to have the capacity to purify 164,000 cubic meters of seawater each day. "

IOW, a water plant utilizing Nile water and yielding 164,000 m3 water per day would consume the entire flow of the Nile for two whole minutes each day. About 0.14%

23 posted on 11/20/2017 6:18:06 AM PST by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: BwanaNdege
"IOW, a water plant utilizing Nile water and yielding 164,000 m3 water per day would consume the entire flow of the Nile for two whole minutes each day. About 0.14%"

Yeah, but it ain't just this one plant that draws (or could potentially draw) from the Nile. The Nile has to have a certain minimum (and large) flow to remain a viable means of transportation. So the actual amount that can be tapped is much smaller than the figure you are quoting.

30 posted on 11/20/2017 7:16:24 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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