LOW NILE FLOOD
UNFAVOURABLE PROSPECTS FOR UPPER EGYPT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Gopyrirjh: (Rec. August 19, 8.45 p.m.) London, August 18. Reports from Cairo state that the annual flood of the Nile is low, and tliat it is possible that certain lands in. Upper Egypt will not be able to benefit from the irrigation system. [The annual flooding •of the Nile, largely controlled by the splendid system of irrigation .installed by British engineers, is the very essence of Egypt's agricultural prosperity. The famous river rises with the regularity of clockwork, and the floods from the back country carry down with them a rioli silt which spreads over the lower lands, fertilising them.] '■
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2545, 20 August 1915, Page 6
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110LOW NILE FLOOD Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2545, 20 August 1915, Page 6
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