Egyptian Sudan 24

Egypt is the Nile

Monsieur Roult, the famous French engineer who was a French member of the Egyptian Railways Board of Directors - before the dissolution of this board by the agreement of 1904 - gave a speech at the Egyptian Scientific Institute on January 21, 1893, saying: "The construction of water reservoirs on the course of the Nile exposes Egypt to the gravest dangers, even to death. It is enough to destroy Egypt to build a dam at the mouth of Lake Nyasa in the upper part of the crescent called Reion. This lake, which is equivalent to 50 billion cubic meters, rises by at most 30 centimeters per year. Therefore, ten years will be needed before the water rises to the top of this dam. In this way, Egypt is deprived during the flood season of a small amount of water, which is ten billion cubic meters, and the total floodwater in the Nile is 75 billion. However, the damage appears during the low flow, as Egypt is deprived of 250 cubic meters per second out of 450 cubic meters. This water is measured at Khartoum, but a lot is lost through evaporation and seepage before it reaches Cairo. 455 cubic meters of water at Khartoum reaches Cairo as 200 cubic meters. If the dam is completed, only 80 to 100 cubic meters per second will reach Cairo, and beyond that will be ruin." On October 1, 1895, Sir Scott Moncrieff, who was the Undersecretary of State for Egyptian Public Works, submitted a report to the Royal English Scientific Institute, in which he said: "If a civilized country owns the inhabitants of the Nile, it will have access to the outlets in Lake Victoria Nyasa to regulate the outflow of water from that sea, just as Manchester is regulated. This work is easy in itself. If it is completed, the feeding of the Nile from those outlets will be in the hands of the owning country. There. If poor preservation drives Egypt to be in