Egyptian Sudan 90 A Look to the Future And Egypt's future lies solely in Sudan.

A nation does not live for today but anticipates tomorrow from today's life. If the Egyptian nation looks to this near future, it will know that its land is constricted and that there is no escape for the coming generations from migration. The population, which nears 13 million, increases by 3 percent each year. This increase is steady due to improved health conditions. The remaining arable or flooded land in Egypt does not exceed 1.8 million feddans, in addition to the exhaustion of the land's strength from excessive and continuous cultivation. The Nile is the only path for the Egyptians' miracle. Among the findings in ancient inscriptions is the statement of the god Amun: "All lands that the Nile announces in its flood are from Egypt, and all who drink from the waters of this Nile above the city of Anatina are Egyptians."

The eyes of researchers have turned to land suitable for agriculture where the Egyptian can find his livelihood when his country becomes too narrow for him. The eyes were drawn to the land of Kordofan, where Khedive Abbas II mistakenly built a modern road to the borders of Tripolitania and began to develop the west. However, the land needs water, and rainwater is insufficient. The Nile's water is diverted to irrigate the Gezira, whose area between the White Nile and the Blue Nile is ten million feddans. It is said that only seven million are suitable for cultivation, and they intend to cultivate cotton. Since they have allocated the Gezira the waters of the Blue Nile, what land can be made suitable with the waters of the White Nile, which has been left to Egypt? This water is calcareous and not suitable for nourishing plants, unlike the Blue Nile, which carries the silt that nourishes fertile soil. Egypt is now threatened with deprivation of the water of this river and its bounty. And since it is the law of nature for populations to disperse when the land becomes too crowded for them.