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In case of a small flood, the upper basins could not be filled with water which could mean food shortages or even famine. If a flood was too large, it would damage villages, dykes and canals. The basin irrigation method did not exact too much of the soils, and their fertility was sustained by the annual silt deposit.
Egypt's fresh water is mainly derived from underground water. Underground water results in 95% of Egyptian's desert land. Egypt is also dependent on rainwater but it is a scarce and limiting source for agricultural development. In addition, Egypt refuses agricultural drainage water in correlation with Nile water for irrigation. [2]
"Pioneering Disaster Risk Index (DRI) Tool". United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Archived from the original on 2014-06-18. Provides key information on all countries in the world. "World's Worst Natural Disasters" Includes list of world's deadliest disasters in history.
The 2016 Egypt flood was a natural disaster affecting the Assuit, Red Sea, Sohag, South Sinai and Qena governorates of Egypt in late October and early November. At least 26 people were killed and 72 injured.
Alexandria, the second largest city in Egypt with a population of 5 million people, and the Nile Delta region are among the world's most vulnerable areas to climate change. According to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , global sea levels are predicted to rise as much as 68cm by 2050.
Derna is prone to flooding, and its dam reservoirs have caused at least five deadly floods since 1942, the latest of which was in 2011, according to a research paper published by Libya’s Sebha ...
The flooding that killed thousands in Libya's Derna last month damaged the ruins at the ancient Greek city of Cyrene in the mountains nearby, but it also revealed new archaeological remains there ...
The WMO attributes the death toll of 469 to the lightning strike and notes the disaster is the highest mortality event as a result of a lightning strike on record (dating back to 1873). [2] The highest death toll directly caused by a single lightning strike is 21 people killed while sheltering in a hut in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ) in 1975.