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In order to overcome these problems, Harold Edwin Hurst, a British hydrologist in the Egyptian Public Works from 1906 until many years after his retirement age, studied the fluctuations of the water levels in the Nile, and already in 1946 submitted an elaborate plan for how a "century storage" could be achieved to cope with exceptional dry ...
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]
Includes country profiles, disaster profiles and a disaster list. "Natural Hazard Information from the Coastal Ocean Institute". Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Particularly including articles on tsunamis, hurricanes and other storms. "Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System".
1584 Tanaro River flood Italy: 1584 300 Flood in Miskolc, 1878: Miskolc, Hungary: 1878 299 1982 Nagasaki flood: Japan: 1982 290 Rio de Janeiro and Fluminense flood Brazil: 1988 272 1973 Granada, Almeria, Murcia flood Spain: 1973 270 Great Sheffield flood dam disaster United Kingdom: 1864 268 Val di Stava dam disaster Italy: 1985 259 1966 Maian ...
Egypt is considered a downstream country because the source of the Nile, and most of the water that contributes to it, comes from outside Egypt’s borders. [25] The Nile flows 4,100 miles beginning in Lake Victoria (located between Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya) and emptying into the Mediterranean sea forming the Nile Delta.
But the problems with the dams were known. The Sebha University paper warned that the dams in Derna had a “high potential for flood risk” and that periodic maintenance is needed to avoid ...
As desperate Palestinians in sealed-off Gaza try to find refuge under Israel’s relentless bombardment in retaliation for Hamas' brutal Oct. 7 attack, some ask why neighboring Egypt and Jordan ...
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.