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Egypt’s Nile Valley Basin Irrigation - WaterHistory.org
Egypt s Nile Valley Basin IrrigationSandra Postel(excerpted from Pillar of Sand)In striking contrast to the early Indus civilization and those of Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia, and Assyria inMesopotamia, the great Egyptian civilization in the Nile River Valley has sustained itself for some 5,000 yearswithout interruption. It lasted through warfare and conquest by the Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, andTurks, as well as through pandemic disease that devastated its population. Yet its agricultural foundationremained intact. Only in more recent times has the sustainabililty of Egyptian agriculture come into response to a 20-fold increase in its population over the last two centuries-from 3 million in the early 1800s to66 million today-Egypt replaced its time-tested agriculture based on the Nile s natural flow rhythms with moreintensified Irrigation and flood management that required complete control of the with the flashy floods of the Tigris and the Euphrates, the historic Nile flood was much more benign,predictable, and timely.
Egypt’s Nile Valley Basin Irrigation Sandra Postel (excerpted from Pillar of Sand) In striking contrast to the early Indus civilization and those of Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia, and Assyria in
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