Will a Nile canal project dry up Africa’s largest wetland?

Will we ever learn ? On a smaller scale, the Tagus-Segura water transfer project [0] in Spain is creating problems not only for Portugal who receives less water in the Tejo river, but also fueling unsustainable agriculture booms which in turn have created ecological disasters [1]<p>Often these water transfers introduce invasive species.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tagus-Segura_Water_Transfer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tagus-Segura_Water_Transfer</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inspain.news&#x2F;mar-menor-is-victim-of-water-diversion-tagus-segura&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inspain.news&#x2F;mar-menor-is-victim-of-water-diversion-...</a><p>(THE TAGUS-SEGURA WATER TRANSFER Lessons from the past (pdf))<p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;tagusseguratransfer.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;tagusseguratr...</a>

This plus Saudi Arabia and Qatar altering the weather to force rain for their needs<p>If we add climate change on top of geo-engineering, we&#x27;ll see some nasty changes in the decades to come..<p>You can live for few weeks without eating, but without water, you die in 2 days

What I&#x27;m missing here is why send it to Egypt and not use it locally to improve agriculture in South Sudan?

Dams and canals have consequences, often unintended but not unforeseeable.

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It is no coincidence that once china brutally overtook power over Tibet it soon afterward deverted tibetian rivers to flow into china and away from their normal southernly trajectory