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The festival of the Nile as depicted in Norden's Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie Map of the Nile river. The flooding of the Nile (commonly referred to as the inundation) has been an important natural cycle in Nubia and Egypt since ancient times. It is celebrated by Egyptians as an annual holiday for two weeks starting August 15, known as Wafaa El-Nil.
But in its effect on the ecology of the Nile Basin – most of which could have been predicted – it is a failure". [30] Periodic floods and droughts have affected Egypt since ancient times. The dam mitigated the effects of floods, such as those in 1964, 1973, and 1988.
The White Nile flooded part of its valley [127] and reconnected to the main Nile. [117] [h] In Egypt widespread flooding by the "Wild Nile" took place; [114] this "Wild Nile" period [129] led to the largest recorded floods on this river, [98] sedimentation in floodplains, [130] and made the Nile valley an inhospitable place for humans. [131]
An alternative would be a 320 kilometre (200 mile) pipeline north-east to the freshwater Nile River south of Rosetta. [3] [4] In comparison, Egypt's Suez Canal is currently 193 kilometres in length. [5] By balancing the inflow and evaporation, the lake's water level can be held constant.
Sometime prior to the Middle Paleolithic, the silt of the Nile valley accumulated enough for the flooding Nile to overflow into the Faiyum basin through the Hawara Channel, creating the ancient Lake Moeris; this earliest iteration of the lake was fed solely by subsequent, intermittent floods of the Nile, and is thought to have dried up entirely ...
A road going through the flooded savannah The Nile Delta upstream of Cairo in 1961. At the northern end is the Nile Delta, 175 km long by 260 km wide. There are some lakes and lagoons with marshes near the seacoast; some of the larger are Lake Burullus and Lake Manzala. The topsoil in the delta is up to 21 meters in depth and intensely used for ...
The 340-kilometer (211-mile) Jonglei Canal was first imagined in the early 1900s by Anglo-Egyptian colonial authorities to increase the Nile’s outflow towards Egypt in the north.
The issue then for Egypt, among other countries in the Nile Basin, is whether this project will decrease water flow in the Nile. The Nile Basin Initiative, Egypt's civil society, and foreign relations are a few of the main contributors to the historical and social framework Egypt's hydro-politics and environmental concerns.