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This system, essentially unchanged, is still used in much of Egypt. It is no good for growing cotton and other long-season crops, so it has been supplanted in the lower valley by dams and canals that make year-round irrigation possible. For the modern system, the irregularity of the Nile is a serious matter. During the annual flood, much water goes out to sea unused; during the rest of the year, there is not enough water. A great deal more acreage could be devoted to the valuable long-season crops if the Nile could be forced to flow steadily...
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...
...preliminary, the freshmen dropped a 5 to 2 decision to BU, their first loss of the season...
Otherwise, the Crimson was helpless before the better prepared Eli wrestlers. The Blue faced more severe competition than Harvard this season and the Elis, a "rough, tough bunch of boys," according to Butch Jordan, seemed to have benefited from...