Monday, March 13, 2017

Looming crisis of the much decreased fresh-water supply to Egypt's Nile delta

A multi-year study of Egypt's Nile Delta places the country's major breadbasket at serious risk. The soil-rich delta evolved as the result of natural conditions involving the Nile's fresh water flow and transport of sediment northward from Ethiopia, across the Sudan and Egypt to the Mediterranean.

from Oceanography News -- ScienceDaily http://ift.tt/2mTbf0j
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