It almost never rains in Egypt, where approximately 95% of the land is desert. For that reason, almost all the drinking water and water required for farming comes from the Nile River. If you know that ...

The crop depends so muchi on the Nile that one foot difference in flood-level is worth 2,000,000. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

THE Nile flood of 1938 has been exceptionally ... Damage was limited to the loss of crops on islands and low lands lying inside the river banks and to infiltration, and this occurs in all years ...

But the capacity of food production in the Nile Delta, the traditional major agricultural region, is limited, and the available water resources in the Nile River have already reached their limit ...

It helped people to easily access the water from the River Nile. They built a system of canals to bring the water to the crops a process that's called irrigation. So it's no accident that one of ...