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Natural Reservoirs. The object of the new dams on the headwaters is to even out the flow, holding water in reservoirs during the flood season, and letting it out when needed. Luckily for Egypt, the reservoirs are already half built. On the main tributaries, the Blue and White Niles, there are big lakes that need only dams at their outlets to turn them into ideal storage basins...
Most of the Nile's annual flood comes roaring down the Blue Nile and the neighboring Atbara when moist seasonal winds blowing across central Africa hit the high mountains of Ethiopia. A dam at the outlet of Lake Tana on the Blue Nile's headwaters will deepen the lake by about 13 feet, and allow it to hold in reserve for the dry season some 1,400 billion gallons of water. With necessary roads, power plants, etc. in wild Ethiopia, this dam is expected to cost $28 million...
...first dam to be built on the White Nile will be at Owen Falls, at the outlet of Lake Victoria. Another will make a reservoir out of Lake Albert. When the whole system is in operation, the water of the White Nile can be held back while the Blue Nile is flowing. The system is expected to smooth out the flow of the lower Nile through Egypt and increase the cultivated area by 1,500,000 acres...
...will do more, Egyptians hope. Some seasons there is not enough rain in Ethiopia to send a proper flood down the Blue Nile. Then in the parched land, the crops dry up. In the long history of Egypt this disaster has often happened for several years in succession, causing serious famines. It probably happened during 'the "seven lean years" which allowed Joseph to speculate in grain and enslave the Egyptians for Pharaoh (Genesis...
...asthma and bronchitis with penicillin. One day a nurse gave her a routine injection of 50,000 units. Within a few seconds the patient complained of a strange taste in her mouth, and of swelling and tightness in her throat and nose. She itched all over, and turned blue in the face. Then, as she was asking for a glass of water, she collapsed and died...