Are there any other sources that have more info on this project? This feels like a construction puff piece. Specifically:<p>1. A map would be nice.<p>2. Where is the water coming from, and how is it ensured that this water source is sustainable?<p>3. A general overview of Egypt's "New Delta" project, and how this is central to its goals.
The California aqueduct (444 miles, 714km) would like to have a word :-).<p>Basically built for the same reason, the central valley of California was mostly arid but the top soil was good for agriculture. The underground aquifer was a limit on how much farming (and of what type) could be done.
Are there any prior examples of rehydrating the desert that have actually worked? (note: from an agricultural perspective, not as artificial oases turned into gambling destinations :-).<p>The question is in relation to the quality of the soil after millenia of arid conditions. The Nile valley and delta are historically fertile due to seasonal sedimentation, but that too has stopped with the Aswan High Dam [1]<p>[1] <a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-30216-4_5" rel="nofollow">https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-30216-4_...</a>
> Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi recently hailed the New Delta project as the largest initiative ever undertaken in the country.<p>Wait a minute, how are we scoping and measuring initiatives when there’s at least one Great Pyramid plus a few others that may rank fairly high.
First of all, I believe this should be called a canal, since rivers are naturally formed and canals built.<p>> Spanning a length of 114 kilometers,<p>Even the Mittelland Canal in Germany is 326km[0], so how it it the largest 'manmade river' in the world?<p>0. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelland_Canal" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelland_Canal</a>
This article I found by searching has a map: <a href="https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/100343/10-information-to-know-about-Egypt’s-New-Delta-project" rel="nofollow">https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/100343/10-information-t...</a><p>It says the schedule got sped up from 10 years to 2 years. I wonder if the Ethiopian Dam scheduled for completion in the coming months had anything to do with that? <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/ethiopias-gerd-dam-a-potential-boon-for-all-experts-say/a-65254058" rel="nofollow">https://www.dw.com/en/ethiopias-gerd-dam-a-potential-boon-fo...</a>
Not the Qattara Depression Project [1].<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project</a>
> The New Delta project is the future of Egypt. It will be implemented in two years,” Sisi said in statements during his visit to the Suez Canal Authority’s Maritime Training and Simulation Center in the canal city of Ismailia<p>There's a LOT that Egypt does wrong that I don't want to replicate in the US. But the US could never get a project of this scale through environmental review anymore, much less in less than 20 years. Really quite disappointing seeing incompetent autocracies outperforming us at building anything larger than a semiconductor.
Interesting that the feddan mentioned in the article [0] is very close to the acre, another oxplow-derived unit of area.<p>Also, surely this won't have disastrous ecological consequences... (clueless)<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feddan" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feddan</a>
Isn't China's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%E2%80%93North_Water_Transfer_Project" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%E2%80%93North_Water_Tran...</a> is the biggest?
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River</a>
1,600 km vs. 114 km. And elsewhere in North Africa, no less.<p>Come on, Egypt, do better.
The Narmada Canal is 500+ kms.<p><a href="https://twitter.com/sumitsonii/status/1645832376730390528" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/sumitsonii/status/1645832376730390528</a>
Kinda neat that a country that’s a successor to an ancient hydraulic empire continues to carry on that civilization’s legacy of massive hydrological projects. Also see the Aswan Dam.