Egyptian Sudan A Look to the Future And Egypt's future lies solely in Sudan.

A nation does not live for its day but anticipates tomorrow from today's life. If the Egyptian nation looks to this near future, it will know that its land has become cramped and that there is no escape for the coming generation from migration. The population, which is now nearing 13 million, increases by 3 percent each year. This increase is steady due to improved health conditions. The remaining land in Egypt, whether barren or flooded, does not exceed one million 800 thousand feddans, in addition to the exhaustion of the land's strength by excessive and continuous cultivation. The Nile is the only path for Egyptian migration. Among the findings in ancient artifacts is the saying of the god Amun: "All lands that the Nile irrigates in its flood are of Egypt, and all who drink from the waters of this Nile above the city of the Fatenin are Egyptians."

The eyes of researchers have turned to land suitable for agriculture where Egyptians can find their sustenance when their country becomes too narrow for them. Attention has turned to the desert of Kordofan, where Khedive Abbas II mistakenly built a modern road to the borders of Tripolitania and began developing the west. However, the land needs water, and rainwater is insufficient. The Nile's water is currently diverted to irrigate the Gezira, an area between the White Nile and the Blue Nile, spanning ten million feddans. The English say that only seven million are suitable for agriculture, and they intend to cultivate cotton. They have also allocated the Blue Nile's water to the Gezira. What land can be made suitable with the White Nile's water, which they have left for Egypt? This water is calcareous and not suitable for nourishing plants, unlike the Blue Nile, which carries the silt that nourishes the Egyptian soil and makes it fertile. Egypt is now threatened with deprivation of this river's water and its silt. And since it is nature's way for populations to be displaced when the land becomes crowded.