Once the floods subsided, thick black silt, or mud, would be left behind on the ground. ... In 1970, the Aswan High Dam was built in Egypt to help regulate the Nile's flooding.

The pharaohs worshipped it as a god, the eternal bringer of life. But the clock is ticking on the Nile.Climate change, pollution and exploitation by man ...

August 15 marks the holiday the Flooding of the Nile. Have you heard of it? I just found out about it researching for this column. It surprised me because I have always had a love of Egyptian ...

Egyptians this week have watched the Nile's water turn a murky brown-yellow color, the result of days of heavy rain in parts of the country and subsequent flooding that eroded the surface of lime ...

Dams have tended to be the most helpful in controlling floods, but the river's thick silt has clogged many of them. ... Now farmers along the Nile plant crops year round.

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Nile is in mortal danger, from its source to the sea. Wednesday 02 November 2022 - 05:25am. NASA/AFP/File | Chris HADFIELD. CAIRO - The pharaohs worshipped it as a god, the eternal bringer of life.

“Every Nile flood would deposit silt bulking up the promontories at Damietta and Rosetta, but this balance has been disturbed by the dam,” he says. If temperatures keep rising, the Mediterranean will ...

"Every Nile flood would deposit silt bulking up the promontories at Damietta and Rosetta. But this balance has been disturbed by the dam," he said. If temperatures keep rising, ...