African Union, the country of Egypt and our Egyptian neighbors carrying out giant projects in the Egyptian seas and on the borders of Egypt Chad and new roads and the Egyptian companies are the infrastructure partner in Chad 🇪🇬🇷🇴❤
Thank you Egypt for seeking an alternative. Egyptians have always thought ahead. This way, we can avoid a war with Ethiopia over the mega dam. Much love from Uganda
2:50 If the Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia collapsed, how is a diversion below the Aswan dam going to divert the flood water? The Roseires Dam in Sudan comes first. Then there is the Sennar Dam and Merowe Dam in Sudan before the water hits the Aswan Dam in Egypt. The diversion starts its way in Ezbet Sherif further downstream past Caïro. It looks more like an inlet. Caïro sits higher up the river, therefore is a diversion downstream of it meaningless as flood protection. FYI An artificial river is called a canal.
Yes, it is called a canal if its source is a river. But if you created it out of nothing from sewage and agricultural water, it is called an artificial river, no matter how long or short it is
Go to Google Earth and search for Tushka lakes, you will be surprised. In case of high floods, the excess water is diverted through a canal located to the south of the High Dam. This canal transports the water to a network of irrigation canals to irrigate hundreds of thousands of hectares. This main artificial canal also allows excess water to flow and fill a series of interconnected depressions in the Western Desert of Egypt. These lakes are the safety net for Egypt during high floods. Maintaining the irrigation canals and the mainstream of the River Nile along with the new irrigation canals of this megaproject (called the New Delta Project) serve to increase their capacity to receive more water in case of a dangerously high flood.
As an Egyptian I'm very grateful to have your well wishes. I hope you too can be blessed. Also, there are tons of other mega projects that egypt is constructing. Egypt hopes to be a first world country by 2040. It has implemented a vision 2030 to catapult the country forward. Even the biggest critics of the Gove are astonished at the scale and speed this government has been working since 2015. Politics aside, the future looks extremely bright and you have to give credit to this government.
@@amerhamad-zp6gewtf are you talking about, do you have any idea what real life in egypt is like? are you part of the 1% rich that have no clue about anything? we are suffering from extreme inflation, we are rated caa by moody which means our economy is on the brink of collapse, billions of dollars in debt, more than 60% of the population below the poverty line, the government has been cutting power to save on gas to sell it to other countries… not mention the dictatorship we live in, tens of thousands of political prisoners who spoke out against the government
Egypt has some seriously bright, future thinking leaders and administrators that have implemented a mega-project of epic proportions. Very, very commendable!!
You are talking about a country that cannot feed its people without imports. A military dictatorship and below-average education system mixed with a lot of superstition
From Ethiopia, Congratulations to Egypt for taking the right track! This's what we wanted for all downstream countries. Dig your ground, cultivate your soil, and let your economy support the poor. We Ethiopians are well-known for our pan-Africanist approach to growing together we call it "Brotherhood". We only pray for the prosperity of the entire continent, including yours.
This video is so confusing. It's so poorly edited and I can't follow the line of discussion. And why does it show a map of Lybia when the topic is about Egypt?
I watched another video that described it better and even then coming to this video with a good visual understanding I realize this video obscured the understanding I had. My understanding is this river flows from near the Red Sea in opposite direction as Nile. If connected to Nile it would form a loop. At that point presently all the waste water from Egypt flows into the sea. This project will capture rather than discard the water and divert through waste water treatment then onto a large swath of agricultural land. I’m unclear on how it mitigates Nile overflows
The copy for this video is so overwhelmingly positive, I would guess the narrator is literally reading the press release from the Egyptian and Chinese governments. No downsides, drawbacks, or possible harms? Not one person displaced? The impact of all that concrete? Some balance necessary.
40 years ago my brother in law Was drilling oil 2:18 wells in Egypt . They drilled into an underground river and offered it ( a free flowing 13 inch stream of water) and the Egyptian government made them cement it.
@@captiannemo1587 Every well ever drilled does just that, it reroutes the water. They probably had it capped because somebody in the government had exclusive rights to the drinking water monopoly. Don't want competition? Shut it down.
i remember a water shortage on the Nile already some 30 or more years ago. I was on vacation and the journey back to Cairo was on river ships. But the Ministry of Agriculture refused to release more war into the Nile because it was needed to water the fields. And definitely not for about 20 Tourist ships. We were lucky, we travelled on a smaller older ship. With an old, wise Captain. He turned the ship around and was more or less - digging - through all the silt and muck. While the bigger and more modern ships had to wait a whole week to get more water under the keel. ( being a Chef) I felt only sorry for the head chef and his kitchen crew. They after all had to feed some 200 passengers on each ship for a whole week extra. Suppose after the Chefs was through, every local food shop and market stall must have been empty!
@@minhsun5441 and another part, special when it is a -President- or the likes, goes into a private bank account in Austria, Switzerland, the Bahamas, or one of those countries.
We use a lot of reclaimed water in Florida for irrigating our lawns and gardens...certainly nothing on this scale...but it works great! I commend them for their project.
This is a project that absolutely makes sense 👍👍👍 Egypt needs to sort its food and water security. Also these terraforming projects are great for environmental, aesthetics and culture reasons.
Unfortunately the negative consequences of projects like this are unpredictable and often outweigh any benefit. The original damming of the Nile caused significant agricultural problems and increase in disease from mosquitoes.
Meanwhile, Libya under the enlightened leadership of Muammar Gaddafi already constructed Africa's most extensive irrigation system which allowed agriculture to flourish in the desert. Under his leadership, there was free education, healthcare and housing, all provided for by oil & gas revenues. Libya was the richest country in Africa with a first world GDP per capita. That was until the West violently overthrew and executed him.
@@CraigTheBrute-co3ysyeah and country was functioning. Now everyone in libya is miserable previously 1% might be. Finally we are net negative scenario. Nothing achieved killing gaddafi
Praising a criminal, just to claim some atttention, wow, i am not so impressed at all. He murdered, he invaded the Tschad for no reason, but staying in power, he let his people pump water from underground, that dried up after a few years, yeah they are still pumping, but not nearly as much as it was, because there is not much water underground to sustain decades of irrigation and basic water supply. Yeah, Gaddafi was a true hero maniac doing just shortsited things, i praise him for that completly. (That was irony if you didn't notice.)
@@juliane__ I didn't praise George W. Bush or Tony Blair or David Cameron or Emmanuel Macron - that would really be praising criminals. As for Gaddafi, he's great. He presided over a stable government where people had good quality of life. Everything turned into shxt when the West waged a war of aggression against his government. No one since has been able to put the country back together. If there was justice in the world, the West will plunge into its civil war soon, and Muslim countries, China, Russia, etc., will join in and do to the West what it has been doing to other people. Now, pxss off!
I think this is very extremly important to do even if the country dont have problems, because we need to take back the dessert no matter what. I wish egypt the best.
I agree 100%. More and more, countries need to fight and take back desert land. Of course, not all countries have the resources, both monetarily nor natural landscape, to do so.
The map of Lybia was really helpful to pinpoint the location. Ancient aquifiers don't refill so it's a one time usage without an emergency exit left in a couple of decades.
@@benediktmorak4409 I see an estimate of 4-5 years. They started filling in July 2020, so it should be at least half full already. I can't find a current fill level. In the meantime, there is still plenty of water passing through the dam.
The lake behind the dam has a lot of area of standing water, a lot of water will evaporate, so there wont be as much outflow than inflow. It will also change the water temperature, when and how much the water flows.
@@niconico3907 They're estimating 3 to 5% evaporation in Ethiopia. Water temps vary by reservoir depending on whether the outlflow comes from the surface of the reservoir or the bottom. The video shows water overflowing the dam, but since the dam's not full, that's misrepresented.
Great effort to bring back Egypt's wealth in natural resources through artificial methods, hope all ends in full success, it will also change the tough climatic conditions in Egypt and neighbouring countries
solar panel? dont you know that solar panel in the desirt is short live? as tiny dust particles in the desert can easily cover the solar panels? second just imagine if you cover it with solar panels which is more useful to have small boats traversethat river or just waste it with solar panel ? anyway that river will be a waste of money cause they cannot prevent sandstorm and when sandstorm sits in thats done
I don't see the point. Evaporation is usually just what you want in the desert, to create humidity for plants. Whatever doesn't evaporate will flow into the Mediterranean. Do you want to protect the Mediterranean from getting too salty? I expect that part of what makes this project relatively cheap is that they needn't fully prevent the water from disappearing into the ground, just limit it. The water that does go into the ground probably just replenishes the ground water. There is probably no big risk of it creating swamps in that area.
Exactly what I was thinking. India will be doing this over their canals. Interesting that China has been an inspiration in this. They r leading the world in development. Also their solar farms in dessert underneath have goats or veg in the shade. They will build as many each year as USA has in total. Far better than the Ever Wars the west promotes. Sick of that Sh1te !
there is not dispute about water, Ethiopia has 1000 billion cubic meters of rain every year, and refuses to give Egypt and Sudan about 85 billions only. Ethiopia is evil, all it needs is to cause harm to its neighbors, as it has already did to Somalia with the same scenario.
Egypt is going to result the same as the Colorado River and the Hoover Dam. Creating 127 km's of open canals for water to pass without covering them only provides a ton of surface area from which evaporation can take place. Just look at the water levels above the Hoover dam and I'll bet there is more precipitation there than there is in the Sahara even if it's only 1 or 2 mm per year !
In America can't even fill our giant bathtub the Grand canyon with fresh water we need to start building infrastructure everywhere and sustainable jobs
😂😅. FYI The Grand Canyon has never been 'full of water' as you put it though I think what you are referring to is lakes Mead and Powell. They are both doing much better thanks to the record snowpack by the way. The reality is we can't depend on this bounty as a regular occurrence. Look at the last 22 years and you'll see that a long term drought has been the norm. Combine that with the growing population, increasing agriculture and these will only begin to decline before too long. And the answer is not more infrastructure, but people learning to live with less and many moving to areas with more accessible water like the Great Lakes region.
That's not your politicians and government first priority. Their first priority is instigating more war around the world and more businesses and more incomes for the military industrial complex.
As a now former traveler to Egypt, I 8 times sailed on the Nile and it was amazing to se how short the distance from the Nile to the dessert actually was! I have also flown over, to Aswan, and got demonstrated how to use the swimming vest!!! I do hope that the population will be able to use the huge amount of land for agriculture, and finish the many unfinished houses (For tax reasons!) 😄!
I've been to the Giza Plateau. The Nile really only covers a narrow area. Building rivers and reclaiming the desert and turning it into farmable land is really the only way to go. I watch these various projects being undertaken elsewhere and they always make me smile, and fill me with hope for future generations. I wish projects like this were being started in the USA. We also need to construct canals, and or pipelines to move predictable flood waters to reservoirs in our deserts! We have the means to do it.
It makes total sense the Nile river is so close to the desert. Because a million years ago it used to be a tropical wetland. My favorite era of Egypt, was when God destroyed the long time pegan idol worshipping City. ☝️🙏
@@lanemimnaugh7486 historically and archeologically speaking, Nile valley was never tropical. In fact north Africa was mostly under water then later desert except for green areas in the north of Maghreb region and the nile valley. So I don't know what you're talking about..
i really like how my government here in egypt build these mega projects without noise or propaganda like alot of ppl here in egypt don't even know that the government is farming a new delta made of 2.8 million acre and has built the longest artificial river and another reason for that beside the low noise news about such projects is how fast the government build these projects like these project get built in like 10 month - 2.5 year
@@2036scott They are yet to see anything in egypt either. Except for a currency crash from decreased foreign currency because of overspending on ambitious ..... uhm
@@okreidieh wrong we are already seeing the projects that are done like the agriculture projects look at egypt agriculture exports the electricity projects back then we had power outage every day for like 12 hours now it rarely happens the new roads and train stations that are already finished and we use that save time and fuel money and reduced accidents the suez canal projects which shows with how many international companies are interested in it and how it saved ships waiting time from 11 hours to 3 hours decent life project the first part of it is done already my brother was working in the first part of the project back in 2022 and many other things also the currency "crash" which is not a crash it's a shortage we are not in a crisis here is happening due to the ukraine war and the US interest rate going up not because overspending most of the projects are done in LE currency not $
The rest of the world should learn from Egypt's mind-bogglingly foolish population growth. Unfortunately, humans are bad at learning the Earth is finite.
This river might be also covered by solar panels to harvest electricity, which is much effective in the dessert and in such way it will save huge amount of land. And it also will reduce the water evaporation. Great job Egypt! With huge respect and support from Israel.
Numbers vary, I have seen the current, mid 2023 population at 113 million, but 150 does look a long way off. That said at current growth rates it will likely be well over 150 in the next 10 years.
Hmm, I'm really skeptical about this project - they will be relying only on water treatment plant as a source of water (water from Nile river won't be used). First - will it be enough to cover needs of agriculture, power plants, etc.? Second - this is open canal in the desert - the evaporation rate will be massive. Third - they are talking about underground wells, will they also use them as a source of water? This is limited resource.
@@Nevzke He does have a point, though. Such aquifers usually take tens of thousands of years to fill. I hope they don't intend to rely on them too much, because it won't be sustainable in the long term.
Fantastic project that promotes water recycling and sustainable agriculture. It could be a great case study for similar projects in countries such as India which uses huge amounts of fresh ground water for agriculture.
India has the Pani foundation which is doing great for the country namely Maharashtra and Gurarat, in the deserts. Building rivers in the country cutting across the states ruled by the feudal lords of India will only exacerbate the already unreliable political uncertainty in India among the BJP, Congress, the Tamil Malayalam, and thousands of others, in the country. So what Egypt is doing is great since the Sisisi government can put the rest of the political parties in absolute check whereas in chaotic democratic India who will come into power the next time round whether, Modi, Gandhi, or Lalu Parsad, still remains to be seen, so this project is not attainable, in democratic India.
@@asgglass2709 democracy is actually a strength. And India is 5th largest economy in the world. It has built the world's largest lift irrigation project to name a achievement in a similar field in recent years. Pretty inconclusive haiku btw.
I bet it's quite a sight to see. I wonder if tourists going to Egypt to see the historical sites are now also visiting the project? It's probably not encouraged.
This should been done decades ago. More countries need to make the desert more arable on a vast scale by doing things like this. What a wonderful difference this will make to the desert...☺
Farming under the Sun in the desert with non destilled water usually leads to formation of crusts of salts that kill the plants. How will they prevent this?
After the 3-4 years when the nile in egypt goes back to the regular flow they will be happy that they built this is it will help beyond measures ❤❤❤but Ethiopia and Egypt share a long history and should not war bet between each other
There is nothing that can replace the waters of the Nile. It is a historical right for Egypt. If it were not for this Nile, ancient Egyptian civilization would not have existed. This is just one of the projects to increase the agricultural area to achieve self-sufficiency and export. This requires more water than the water of the Nile, so we are turning to other alternatives to the Nile, but the water of the Nile will not be given up. It is life or death for us as Egyptians.
I applaud the Egyptian government for its efforts to increase food production and provide more water for the masses. However, get that population figure down, down, down. When Egypt had 100 million people, I thought that was too much. 150?! Nuts!!!
@@Hanoshf , that's a bit better, but still too much, given food imports. A viable, healthy nation should be 100% self reliant when it comes to food. But is Egypt in worse shape than the U.K.? The U.K. imports a little more than 50% of all food consumed by its population. And this is 'developed' nation state?
If this Egyptian mega project is successfully implemented without any problems disrupting its smoothness, I believe Egypt can accelerate its economic progress by a long and efficient leap at the same time Egypt can overcome its relatively static economy and low currency value for decades.
The project has nothing to do with water. It’s about boosting the economy by engaging in a massive project. It’s good for job creation. And puts them as a global power house
@@ngqabuthodube2068one of many megaprojects that egypt is constructing. Just look at all the videos about Egyptian megaprojects and you'll be astonished at the progress.
Loved your video, very informative, leads me to believe that egyptians are serious and are moving ahead with construction to help the nation compete in the world economy. Better than fighting amongst themselves, it's all about survival go egypt go, much success soon and prosper as a society all over the world.
🇪🇬: Thank you, but there are problems we face, such as terrorism. We eliminated most of them, and this was the reason for halting progress, but there are still some of them.
Wow this is Egypt's answer to Ethiopia's Grand Dam, they enjoyed the benefits of the Nile and the Suez canal thanks to the West. As new members of BRICS this is how you resolve issues diplomatically without death and destruction. Good for Egypt and Ethiopia.
This has nothing to do with the Renaissance Dam and the waters of the Nile. There is no dispensing with Egypt’s share, which is 55 billion cubic meters. Our right is history to water. We have a water deficit. Ethiopia is stubborn and arrogant in the unknown and destruction, exposing Sudan to danger from the flood.
@@بدوناسم-ل7ب9ف "stubborn and arrogant" for wanting to utilize the natural resource that is rightfully within their borders? lol Egypt is stupid and arrogant for thinking they would continue to benefit the most from the Nile (with no opposition) when 85% of it is supplied by the highlands of another country.
@@بدوناسم-ل7ب9ف i am in Jamaica, far away from this problem, however i don't understand the mindset where it is believed that Egypt has an unquestionable right to the waters of the Blue Nile river that originate in Ethiopia. This aggressive posturing is advocating war between what should be cooperating friendly neighbours. Isn't it better to work out a solution with Ethiopia, the country where the river starts, so that all concerned can benefit. Based on information that i receive, Ethiopia wants development for Ethiopians as much as Egypt wants development for Egyptians. We humans should cooperate with each other for the benefit of all concerned. Please, explain your demands of Ethiopia for the waters of the Blue Nile.
@@maralena137123 We support development for all people, but on conditions. The first condition is that there be coordination between Egypt and Ethiopia in storage and drainage so that there are no devastating risks to Egypt and Sudan from floods. Secondly, the security and safety of the dam must be supervised by Egypt so that we can be reassured that nothing bad will happen to the dam and it will collapse. It destroys the downstream countries of Egypt and Sudan The filling will take place over a long period so that a severe shortage of Nile water does not occur in the downstream countries. The water does not belong to the upstream countries, nor is it the property of the upstream and downstream countries, and it is a historical right. If it were not for the Nile, the greatest civilization in the world, the ancient Egyptian civilization, would not exist. Ethiopia is supported by other external parties that have enmity with Egypt. Until now, Ethiopia has not produced electricity as it promised its people, and it has sufficient water reserves. Why? The issue is purely political, and Ethiopia has dozens of rivers, why the Blue Nile? particulary Egypt depends on the Nile water for 90% of Egypt's water sources My greetings to you and the people of Jamaica, and I wish you peace and security
@@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 you don't know that it has been well treated, or if there is still waste in it. You don't know if the waste water treatment plant works as it is supposed to, has maintenance issue...
Ethiopia isn't the cause of Egypt's water problems. It's their water mismanagement and out of control birth rate. A very typical problem in the Middle East. Egypt has multiple dams itself. This has made land fertility drop. They could release more water themselves, but that would mean they would have to admit that they mismanaged it in the first place.
The Nile River regularly flooded, flushing out the trash and rats and feces of the Nile population. Then the Aswan dam came in and stopped the flooding, which was also depositing more carbon muck to fertilize the fields. Now they have to fertilize, which is expensive.
So they don't want to release water they need and they already have in reserve because they're worried to admit to someone that they have mismanaged their own water , expect that they didn't since they had water in reserve ? Goddd , I need to stop mismanaging my brain cells reading such utterly stupid comments .
There are quite a few mistakes in this video : 1) This video said "The land is fertile". This is NOT true at all. I am currently working in Egypt on a project to turn the Sahara green. I have worked with the ubiquitous yellow clay here. It is USELESS for farming. The only way these farmers have been able to grow anything in the desert is through adding HUGE amounts of nitrates and other fertilizers 2) This video stated that Ethiopia created the dam not because it was low on water, but because they wanted the electricity. Ethiopia actually needs the dam for BOTH the electricity and the water. Ethiopia has been experiencing extreme weather changes since the 1990s, where they get years of drought and then a few years of flooding. The dam not only holds a huge amount of water back for Ethiopia in the dam reserves, but it also helps to recharge the aquifer in the country. And since the dam is in a high elevation, that means that the recharged aquifer discharges itself in the form of springs in lower levels. This not only keeps the trees and grasslands green (which is 100% necessary to prevent major droughts in the future) but the spring waters also contribute to the flow of the Blue Nile (which merges with the White Nile to create the Nile River. ) The dam resevoir is helping to keep the whole area green. Because if those trees and grass die off during a major drought, then less rainfall will occur in that region after the drought is over. So Egypt needs that dam there to regulate the flow of water for the Nile in times of drought. The problem is the water level for the Nile.
Egypt don't need to worry about that dam break, since Renaissance Dam is located at the south of Ethiopia so if dam breaks, it needs to go through about 1000km and 3 additional dams across Ethiopia first before reaching Egypt. Then it has to cross another 4 dams and ~1000km in Egypt to reach Cairo/delta region.
Ok let's make this project even better. First by installing slow speed underwater turbines called Waterotors in all rivers, channels and streams with water moving 2 to 5 miles an hour to make electrical power and to make drinking water out of the air with atmospheric water generators. Second by installing both these ideas on offshore platforms, coastal cities could make clean drinking water and power to use back on land. Waterotors can work in tidel flow areas and the atmospheric water generators will work with, near a hundred percent efficiency just off the surface of the ocean to maximize water production. The advantage of this combination is that water made this way won't have the problems desalination plants have with saline and salty brine returning to the ocean. The sad part is that we waste miles and miles of unused potential electrical water power by not installing these units and they are a workable solution to large Dam projects. They work 24/7, won't harm fish, can be moved if needed and can be scaled up to meet any need. Staggering these units along river bottoms won't interfere with fish runs or navigation of boats and can supply power to very remote areas. Search it on TH-cam.
The more you pump the more the ground sinks, Tulare lake has reformed in Southern California where they pumped it so dry some areas are down 20 feet in 30 years
I love when people act like ground water is magic water from heaven. Besides, once it's gone, it's gone. It will take millennia for a desert to replenish it's ground water. But whatever, they only care about the next 20 years
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 groundwater is definitely one of those things that we need to have more respect for. powerful, yet scarce if we aren't careful with it
The US will have trouble doing this to bring water to drought impacted farmland due to land ownership where the owners would not want pipelines going through their property....
Is this the coolest mega project in Africa right now?
nope. its like 1978 actually!
they need to build a forest like China in 10-20 years will be an oasis
What could POSSIBLY go wrong with that project?
For those asking .. they are treating insane amounts of waste water to make them good for irrigation again
Naw, the green wall is pretty cool.
Especially if your under the trees.. cough
I'm proud of you Egypt. I'm an American with absolutely no stake in this, but have always thought we should be teraforming deserts. Way to go.
What about black Africans??? You don’t care about them?
I was literally just thinking of this.
The world, not just Egypt, will prosper if America stops interfering in the affairs of countries, wars with them, and terrorism and its support
If they built the pyramids, they can build anything. Power to you Egypt…love from Canada 🇨🇦 🇱🇾
that's the flag of libya
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Yes it is. From 🇱🇾 but living in 🇨🇦
Thanks to peaceful religion, Egyptians built the pyramids.
@@sagishpreman7644 ??
@@sagishpreman7644hallucinating much? You don’t know much about our ancient religion or current ones do you l😂
As a lranian any development in Egypt makes me happy.❤
Jin Jiyan Azadi we love you too Khomaini Kosskesh 😜
What about black Africans??
@@jordyb57 I wish him all the best .
Why?
Just curious.
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African Union, the country of Egypt and our Egyptian neighbors carrying out giant projects in the Egyptian seas and on the borders of Egypt Chad and new roads and the Egyptian companies are the infrastructure partner in Chad 🇪🇬🇷🇴❤
Thank you Egypt for seeking an alternative. Egyptians have always thought ahead. This way, we can avoid a war with Ethiopia over the mega dam. Much love from Uganda
Much love from Yemen 🇾🇪 ❤
I mean nobody should be surprised. Egypt is the OG of mega projects after all.
That's 100% right
dictators with micro-penis syndrome building large projects as compensation, seems to run in our blood, from ancient Pharaohs to today
Well, you are paying for it.
yep, they have that tradition since antiquity...
7:14 is a map of Libya rather than Egypt. The least you can do is to show us a map of where this artificial river is.
Plan to blow renaissance
They are planning to fill up Libyan depression..
Wishing all the people of Egypt peace, health and prosperity from America.
2:50 If the Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia collapsed, how is a diversion below the Aswan dam going to divert the flood water? The Roseires Dam in Sudan comes first. Then there is the Sennar Dam and Merowe Dam in Sudan before the water hits the Aswan Dam in Egypt. The diversion starts its way in Ezbet Sherif further downstream past Caïro. It looks more like an inlet. Caïro sits higher up the river, therefore is a diversion downstream of it meaningless as flood protection. FYI An artificial river is called a canal.
This.
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is the highest and lowest in the world
Yes, it is called a canal if its source is a river. But if you created it out of nothing from sewage and agricultural water, it is called an artificial river, no matter how long or short it is
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8 billion ppl need get rid of 4 billion to save the world, its humans that killing the world.
Go to Google Earth and search for Tushka lakes, you will be surprised. In case of high floods, the excess water is diverted through a canal located to the south of the High Dam. This canal transports the water to a network of irrigation canals to irrigate hundreds of thousands of hectares. This main artificial canal also allows excess water to flow and fill a series of interconnected depressions in the Western Desert of Egypt. These lakes are the safety net for Egypt during high floods. Maintaining the irrigation canals and the mainstream of the River Nile along with the new irrigation canals of this megaproject (called the New Delta Project) serve to increase their capacity to receive more water in case of a dangerously high flood.
from Philippines here...I wish EGYPT to RISE again!!! GO GO GO EGYPT!!
Best wishes Egypt from North Carolina, USA.
Well, you are paying for it.
This is exciting news for a country that holds a special place in the hearts of the world. May God bless these people to succeed.
Which God? Horus?
As an Egyptian I'm very grateful to have your well wishes. I hope you too can be blessed. Also, there are tons of other mega projects that egypt is constructing. Egypt hopes to be a first world country by 2040. It has implemented a vision 2030 to catapult the country forward. Even the biggest critics of the Gove are astonished at the scale and speed this government has been working since 2015. Politics aside, the future looks extremely bright and you have to give credit to this government.
@@amerhamad-zp6gewtf are you talking about, do you have any idea what real life in egypt is like? are you part of the 1% rich that have no clue about anything?
we are suffering from extreme inflation, we are rated caa by moody which means our economy is on the brink of collapse, billions of dollars in debt, more than 60% of the population below the poverty line, the government has been cutting power to save on gas to sell it to other countries… not mention the dictatorship we live in, tens of thousands of political prisoners who spoke out against the government
Egypt has some seriously bright, future thinking leaders and administrators that have implemented a mega-project of epic proportions. Very, very commendable!!
You want to save water, use dry toilets instead of flush toilets.
@@donaldkasper8346this is gross lol this is not the West go to do that shit in the West 🤮
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Personal highgene is red line 😅😅😅
That would be the army
You are talking about a country that cannot feed its people without imports. A military dictatorship and below-average education system mixed with a lot of superstition
From Ethiopia,
Congratulations to Egypt for taking the right track! This's what we wanted for all downstream countries. Dig your ground, cultivate your soil, and let your economy support the poor. We Ethiopians are well-known for our pan-Africanist approach to growing together we call it "Brotherhood". We only pray for the prosperity of the entire continent, including yours.
We Africans must always work together for the development of Africa.
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You are an Ethiopian who wishes to cut off water to Egypt, but the plan will fail, so you pretend to love Egypt
This video is so confusing. It's so poorly edited and I can't follow the line of discussion. And why does it show a map of Lybia when the topic is about Egypt?
Right!
I watched another video that described it better and even then coming to this video with a good visual understanding I realize this video obscured the understanding I had. My understanding is this river flows from near the Red Sea in opposite direction as Nile. If connected to Nile it would form a loop. At that point presently all the waste water from Egypt flows into the sea. This project will capture rather than discard the water and divert through waste water treatment then onto a large swath of agricultural land.
I’m unclear on how it mitigates Nile overflows
True. Nice try.
I am tired from a nasty long hike and this makes perfect sense to me. Please be polite😅
Maybe because Libya is an example of what he speaks of. Great and wonderful experiment 🥼
Good job Egypt.
Excellently Beautiful Project for the people of Egypt.
Well, you are paying for it.
@mountianfolks huh
@@All_SportGG I looked it up. UN money is paying for it. Who funds 90% of the UN? America.
The copy for this video is so overwhelmingly positive, I would guess the narrator is literally reading the press release from the Egyptian and Chinese governments. No downsides, drawbacks, or possible harms? Not one person displaced? The impact of all that concrete? Some balance necessary.
Downside is forcing ethopia to keep releasing water or threaten to bomb their dam...
40 years ago my brother in law Was drilling oil 2:18 wells in Egypt . They drilled into an underground river and offered it ( a free flowing 13 inch stream of water) and the Egyptian government made them cement it.
Rerouting underground water can, and usually does, cause unexpected problems.
@@captiannemo1587 Every well ever drilled does just that, it reroutes the water. They probably had it capped because somebody in the government had exclusive rights to the drinking water monopoly. Don't want competition? Shut it down.
i remember a water shortage on the Nile already some 30 or more years ago.
I was on vacation and the journey back to Cairo was on river ships.
But the Ministry of Agriculture refused to release more war into the Nile because it was needed to water the fields.
And definitely not for about 20 Tourist ships.
We were lucky, we travelled on a smaller older ship.
With an old, wise Captain.
He turned the ship around and was more or less - digging - through all the silt and muck.
While the bigger and more modern ships had to wait a whole week to get more water under the keel.
( being a Chef) I felt only sorry for the head chef and his kitchen crew.
They after all had to feed some 200 passengers on each ship for a whole week extra.
Suppose after the Chefs was through, every local food shop and market stall must have been empty!
@@minhsun5441 and another part, special when it is a -President- or the likes, goes into a private bank account in Austria, Switzerland, the Bahamas, or one of those countries.
@hillbillyintheasia6122
59 seconds ago (edited)
8 billion ppl need get rid of 4 billion to save the world, its humans that killing the world.
Well done Egypt!! Y'all gonna prosper for ages if you keep having people making decisions like this
We use a lot of reclaimed water in Florida for irrigating our lawns and gardens...certainly nothing on this scale...but it works great! I commend them for their project.
Well, you are paying for it.
This is a project that absolutely makes sense 👍👍👍
Egypt needs to sort its food and water security. Also these terraforming projects are great for environmental, aesthetics and culture reasons.
@hillbillyintheasia6122
59 seconds ago (edited)
8 billion ppl need get rid of 4 billion to save the world, its humans that killing the world.
Not really. Just means someplace down stream will loose water where other people live.
Egypt is the last country on the river nile. No one is further down that river.
Unfortunately the negative consequences of projects like this are unpredictable and often outweigh any benefit. The original damming of the Nile caused significant agricultural problems and increase in disease from mosquitoes.
Meanwhile, Libya under the enlightened leadership of Muammar Gaddafi already constructed Africa's most extensive irrigation system which allowed agriculture to flourish in the desert. Under his leadership, there was free education, healthcare and housing, all provided for by oil & gas revenues. Libya was the richest country in Africa with a first world GDP per capita. That was until the West violently overthrew and executed him.
He did good things & bad. Let us not go to extremes.
Libya has a population less than 8 million, there's no comparison to dealing with a nation of over 100 million.
@@CraigTheBrute-co3ysyeah and country was functioning.
Now everyone in libya is miserable previously 1% might be.
Finally we are net negative scenario. Nothing achieved killing gaddafi
Praising a criminal, just to claim some atttention, wow, i am not so impressed at all. He murdered, he invaded the Tschad for no reason, but staying in power, he let his people pump water from underground, that dried up after a few years, yeah they are still pumping, but not nearly as much as it was, because there is not much water underground to sustain decades of irrigation and basic water supply. Yeah, Gaddafi was a true hero maniac doing just shortsited things, i praise him for that completly. (That was irony if you didn't notice.)
@@juliane__ I didn't praise George W. Bush or Tony Blair or David Cameron or Emmanuel Macron - that would really be praising criminals. As for Gaddafi, he's great. He presided over a stable government where people had good quality of life. Everything turned into shxt when the West waged a war of aggression against his government. No one since has been able to put the country back together. If there was justice in the world, the West will plunge into its civil war soon, and Muslim countries, China, Russia, etc., will join in and do to the West what it has been doing to other people. Now, pxss off!
I think this is very extremly important to do even if the country dont have problems, because we need to take back the dessert no matter what. I wish egypt the best.
I agree 100%. More and more, countries need to fight and take back desert land. Of course, not all countries have the resources, both monetarily nor natural landscape, to do so.
Yes indeed. Take back that trifle!!😅😅
The map of Lybia was really helpful to pinpoint the location. Ancient aquifiers don't refill so it's a one time usage without an emergency exit left in a couple of decades.
The dam is only a short term problem, once the lake is full, the outflow of the dam will mostly equal the original Blue Nile flow.
How long is short term? 5 years? 10 years? and what in the meantime?
Egypt will bomb the dam trust me! Ethiopia is doomed
@@benediktmorak4409 I see an estimate of 4-5 years. They started filling in July 2020, so it should be at least half full already. I can't find a current fill level.
In the meantime, there is still plenty of water passing through the dam.
The lake behind the dam has a lot of area of standing water, a lot of water will evaporate, so there wont be as much outflow than inflow.
It will also change the water temperature, when and how much the water flows.
@@niconico3907 They're estimating 3 to 5% evaporation in Ethiopia. Water temps vary by reservoir depending on whether the outlflow comes from the surface of the reservoir or the bottom. The video shows water overflowing the dam, but since the dam's not full, that's misrepresented.
Egypt is preparing to next level, amazing.
Great effort to bring back Egypt's wealth in natural resources through artificial methods, hope all ends in full success, it will also change the tough climatic conditions in Egypt and neighbouring countries
Egypt should also consider covering the canal with solar panels. Double win!
solar panel? dont you know that solar panel in the desirt is short live? as tiny dust particles in the desert can easily cover the solar panels? second just imagine if you cover it with solar panels which is more useful to have small boats traversethat river or just waste it with solar panel ? anyway that river will be a waste of money cause they cannot prevent sandstorm and when sandstorm sits in thats done
As they are doing in CA.
@@jordanwhiteflower8125
We live near the desert some 20000 years ago , but u know better 😅
I don't see the point. Evaporation is usually just what you want in the desert, to create humidity for plants. Whatever doesn't evaporate will flow into the Mediterranean. Do you want to protect the Mediterranean from getting too salty?
I expect that part of what makes this project relatively cheap is that they needn't fully prevent the water from disappearing into the ground, just limit it. The water that does go into the ground probably just replenishes the ground water. There is probably no big risk of it creating swamps in that area.
Exactly what I was thinking. India will be doing this over their canals. Interesting that China has been an inspiration in this. They r leading the world in development. Also their solar farms in dessert underneath have goats or veg in the shade. They will build as many each year as USA has in total. Far better than the Ever Wars the west promotes. Sick of that Sh1te !
This is a very exciting development and may prove to be an alternative solution to the looming dispute over the Nile river dilemma.
Go to school, learn, come back, write something intelligent
@@MakeSomeNoisePlaylists go to your parents and ask them to teach you some manners.
there is not dispute about water, Ethiopia has 1000 billion cubic meters of rain every year, and refuses to give Egypt and Sudan about 85 billions only.
Ethiopia is evil, all it needs is to cause harm to its neighbors, as it has already did to Somalia with the same scenario.
@@MakeSomeNoisePlaylistsquit playing with your daddy's weewee.
@@MakeSomeNoisePlaylists Your stupidity is showing.
Egypts population as of today (2023) is 105m, there’s no way Egypts population will be 150m by 2024.
All Africans should be happy with projects like this. We have been labeled poor for far too long. We need to change this and God has blessed us.
Egypt is going to result the same as the Colorado River and the Hoover Dam.
Creating 127 km's of open canals for water to pass without covering them only provides a ton of surface area from which evaporation can take place. Just look at the water levels above the Hoover dam and I'll bet there is more precipitation there than there is in the Sahara even if it's only 1 or 2 mm per year !
In America can't even fill our giant bathtub the Grand canyon with fresh water we need to start building infrastructure everywhere and sustainable jobs
Would be beautiful to see the grand canyon full again.
😂😅. FYI The Grand Canyon has never been 'full of water' as you put it though I think what you are referring to is lakes Mead and Powell. They are both doing much better thanks to the record snowpack by the way.
The reality is we can't depend on this bounty as a regular occurrence. Look at the last 22 years and you'll see that a long term drought has been the norm. Combine that with the growing population, increasing agriculture and these will only begin to decline before too long.
And the answer is not more infrastructure, but people learning to live with less and many moving to areas with more accessible water like the Great Lakes region.
That's not your politicians and government first priority. Their first priority is instigating more war around the world and more businesses and more incomes for the military industrial complex.
It was never 'Full'. You must mean Lake Mead, which is miles downstream.
Grand Canyon......Possibly not a result from huge amount of years of water shaping but possibly from ancient mining for whatever value it had to give
Very good video, no annoying background music or other useless stuff, the fact´s well presented : )
As a now former traveler to Egypt, I 8 times sailed on the Nile and it was amazing to se how short the distance from the Nile to the dessert actually was! I have also flown over, to Aswan, and got demonstrated how to use the swimming vest!!! I do hope that the population will be able to use the huge amount of land for agriculture, and finish the many unfinished houses (For tax reasons!) 😄!
I've been to the Giza Plateau. The Nile really only covers a narrow area. Building rivers and reclaiming the desert and turning it into farmable land is really the only way to go. I watch these various projects being undertaken elsewhere and they always make me smile, and fill me with hope for future generations. I wish projects like this were being started in the USA. We also need to construct canals, and or pipelines to move predictable flood waters to reservoirs in our deserts! We have the means to do it.
The "unfinished house" in Egypt is an idea that never die!
It makes total sense the Nile river is so close to the desert. Because a million years ago it used to be a tropical wetland. My favorite era of Egypt, was when God destroyed the long time pegan idol worshipping City. ☝️🙏
@@lanemimnaugh7486 historically and archeologically speaking, Nile valley was never tropical. In fact north Africa was mostly under water then later desert except for green areas in the north of Maghreb region and the nile valley. So I don't know what you're talking about..
8 billion ppl need get rid of 4 billion to save the world, its humans that killing the world.
Wishing Egypt best of luck bringing this great project in budget & on time 😊
i really like how my government here in egypt build these mega projects without noise or propaganda like alot of ppl here in egypt don't even know that the government is farming a new delta made of 2.8 million acre and has built the longest artificial river and another reason for that beside the low noise news about such projects is how fast the government build these projects like these project get built in like 10 month - 2.5 year
Yet here in Europe, we talk a lot about all these cool ideas and projects but still after 20yrs we are yet to see anything.
@@2036scott They are yet to see anything in egypt either. Except for a currency crash from decreased foreign currency because of overspending on ambitious ..... uhm
@@okreidieh wrong
we are already seeing the projects that are done like the agriculture projects look at egypt agriculture exports
the electricity projects back then we had power outage every day for like 12 hours now it rarely happens
the new roads and train stations that are already finished and we use that save time and fuel money and reduced accidents
the suez canal projects which shows with how many international companies are interested in it and how it saved ships waiting time from 11 hours to 3 hours
decent life project the first part of it is done already my brother was working in the first part of the project back in 2022 and many other things
also the currency "crash" which is not a crash it's a shortage we are not in a crisis here is happening due to the ukraine war and the US interest rate going up not because overspending most of the projects are done in LE currency not $
i just hope it goes well
In Finland, Päijänne tunneli is 120km. It delivery water for million people. Building started 1972 and was ready 1982.
One km per month. Amazing.
@@Deeplycloseted435 its tunnel thru basic rock, water insulation etc. Not easy in -70`s equipment.
Incredible mind boggling water project that the rest of the world should study and learn from.
🇪🇬: Thank you
and when no one has any water where they will want to live, the new nation
The rest of the world should learn from Egypt's mind-bogglingly foolish population growth. Unfortunately, humans are bad at learning the Earth is finite.
This river might be also covered by solar panels to harvest electricity, which is much effective in the dessert and in such way it will save huge amount of land. And it also will reduce the water evaporation.
Great job Egypt! With huge respect and support from Israel.
Great report. Thanks for the video
Amazing project.. bright futur for egypt! God bless it people, it governement and God blesses egypt with a lot of prosperity!
Egypt's current population is 102 millions and expected to reach 104 millions by 2024.
Numbers vary, I have seen the current, mid 2023 population at 113 million, but 150 does look a long way off.
That said at current growth rates it will likely be well over 150 in the next 10 years.
Good luck to Egypt, sounds a great idea.
That was a very and very informative and interesting video.
From the deepest of my heart... Thank you and take care.
Great idea so the water can evaporate more easily and faster.
A great project prevents the rapid rise of sea water and helps many countries not to sink
You were showing a map of Libya at minute 7:13. Nothing to do with Egypt.
That map is the Nubian Aquifer water project that Ghadaafi built.
As bombed by Western war planes, How helpful of them.
Invest in Egypt ❤🇪🇬🇪🇬
❤❤👏🇺🇸I am so happy for Egypt!🇺🇸
Thanks, u are always welcome 🥰
From egypt
Thanks to u
Hmm, I'm really skeptical about this project - they will be relying only on water treatment plant as a source of water (water from Nile river won't be used). First - will it be enough to cover needs of agriculture, power plants, etc.? Second - this is open canal in the desert - the evaporation rate will be massive. Third - they are talking about underground wells, will they also use them as a source of water? This is limited resource.
He's talked of the fresh water acquifires that Ben found, its waters are to be additional water.
@@Nevzke He does have a point, though. Such aquifers usually take tens of thousands of years to fill. I hope they don't intend to rely on them too much, because it won't be sustainable in the long term.
There is plenty to be skeptical about. That 5B is either a straight up lie or some shady deals are going on in the background.
Fantastic project that promotes water recycling and sustainable agriculture. It could be a great case study for similar projects in countries such as India which uses huge amounts of fresh ground water for agriculture.
India has the Pani foundation which is doing great for the country namely Maharashtra and Gurarat, in the deserts. Building rivers in the country cutting across the states ruled by the feudal lords of India will only exacerbate the already unreliable political uncertainty in India among the BJP, Congress, the Tamil Malayalam, and thousands of others, in the country. So what Egypt is doing is great since the Sisisi government can put the rest of the political parties in absolute check whereas in chaotic democratic India who will come into power the next time round whether, Modi, Gandhi, or Lalu Parsad, still remains to be seen, so this project is not attainable, in democratic India.
@hillbillyintheasia6122
59 seconds ago (edited)
8 billion ppl need get rid of 4 billion to save the world, its humans that killing the world.
@@asgglass2709 democracy is actually a strength. And India is 5th largest economy in the world. It has built the world's largest lift irrigation project to name a achievement in a similar field in recent years. Pretty inconclusive haiku btw.
Morocco Libya Tunisia Sudan could all benefit from water treatment to fresh water. Edit Desalination is becoming cheaper with osmosis
Egyptians have constructing epic structures in their blood.
I bet it's quite a sight to see. I wonder if tourists going to Egypt to see the historical sites are now also visiting the project? It's probably not encouraged.
About time. Glad to hear. Hope all goes well.
This should been done decades ago. More countries need to make the desert more arable on a vast scale by doing things like this. What a wonderful difference this will make to the desert...☺
wow ...Amazing project and at amazing development cost ....thanks for sharing
Farming under the Sun in the desert with non destilled water usually leads to formation of crusts of salts that kill the plants. How will they prevent this?
Just like any crackpot dictatorship. Jailing those who try to highlight it
Thats good hopefully north Africa will build enough rivers to turn in it mostlty green.
After the 3-4 years when the nile in egypt goes back to the regular flow they will be happy that they built this is it will help beyond measures ❤❤❤but Ethiopia and Egypt share a long history and should not war bet between each other
I love it. Good job Egypt. No need to depend on the Nile. Where there’s will there’s always away. We can all live in peace and grow together.
There is nothing that can replace the waters of the Nile. It is a historical right for Egypt. If it were not for this Nile, ancient Egyptian civilization would not have existed.
This is just one of the projects to increase the agricultural area to achieve self-sufficiency and export. This requires more water than the water of the Nile, so we are turning to other alternatives to the Nile, but the water of the Nile will not be given up. It is life or death for us as Egyptians.
More power to Egypt!!! 🎉
I applaud the Egyptian government for its efforts to increase food production and provide more water for the masses. However, get that population figure down, down, down. When Egypt had 100 million people, I thought that was too much. 150?! Nuts!!!
150 is not accurate, the Egyptian population is 105m which goes up to 115 when adding refugees.
@@Hanoshf , that's a bit better, but still too much, given food imports.
A viable, healthy nation should be 100% self reliant when it comes to food.
But is Egypt in worse shape than the U.K.?
The U.K. imports a little more than 50% of all food consumed by its population. And this is 'developed' nation state?
No solution will work if Egypt's population comtinues to grow
I use Condoms 😂..
If this Egyptian mega project is successfully implemented without any problems disrupting its smoothness, I believe Egypt can accelerate its economic progress by a long and efficient leap at the same time Egypt can overcome its relatively static economy and low currency value for decades.
Sounds to good to be true, I hope it works out as planned.
I believe they opened it a couple of days ago and its in the testing phase rn
The project has nothing to do with water. It’s about boosting the economy by engaging in a massive project. It’s good for job creation. And puts them as a global power house
@@ngqabuthodube2068one of many megaprojects that egypt is constructing. Just look at all the videos about Egyptian megaprojects and you'll be astonished at the progress.
Absolutely amazing!
Loved your video, very informative, leads me to believe that egyptians are serious and are moving ahead with construction to help the nation compete in the world economy. Better than fighting amongst themselves, it's all about survival go egypt go, much success soon and prosper as a society all over the world.
Look up USA Salton Sea, a big failure.
One way to get rid of the extra water from global warming
🇪🇬: Thank you, but there are problems we face, such as terrorism. We eliminated most of them, and this was the reason for halting progress, but there are still some of them.
@hillbillyintheasia6122
59 seconds ago (edited)
8 billion ppl need get rid of 4 billion to save the world, its humans that killing the world.
Wow this is Egypt's answer to Ethiopia's Grand Dam, they enjoyed the benefits of the Nile and the Suez canal thanks to the West. As new members of BRICS this is how you resolve issues diplomatically without death and destruction. Good for Egypt and Ethiopia.
This has nothing to do with the Renaissance Dam and the waters of the Nile. There is no dispensing with Egypt’s share, which is 55 billion cubic meters. Our right is history to water. We have a water deficit. Ethiopia is stubborn and arrogant in the unknown and destruction, exposing Sudan to danger from the flood.
@@بدوناسم-ل7ب9ف "stubborn and arrogant" for wanting to utilize the natural resource that is rightfully within their borders? lol Egypt is stupid and arrogant for thinking they would continue to benefit the most from the Nile (with no opposition) when 85% of it is supplied by the highlands of another country.
@@بدوناسم-ل7ب9ف i am in Jamaica, far away from this problem, however i don't understand the mindset where it is believed that Egypt has an unquestionable right to the waters of the Blue Nile river that originate in Ethiopia. This aggressive posturing is advocating war between what should be cooperating friendly neighbours.
Isn't it better to work out a solution with Ethiopia, the country where the river starts, so that all concerned can benefit.
Based on information that i receive, Ethiopia wants development for Ethiopians as much as Egypt wants development for Egyptians.
We humans should cooperate with each other for the benefit of all concerned.
Please, explain your demands of Ethiopia for the waters of the Blue Nile.
@@maralena137123
We support development for all people, but on conditions. The first condition is that there be coordination between Egypt and Ethiopia in storage and drainage so that there are no devastating risks to Egypt and Sudan from floods. Secondly, the security and safety of the dam must be supervised by Egypt so that we can be reassured that nothing bad will happen to the dam and it will collapse. It destroys the downstream countries of Egypt and Sudan The filling will take place over a long period so that a severe shortage of Nile water does not occur in the downstream countries. The water does not belong to the upstream countries, nor is it the property of the upstream and downstream countries, and it is a historical right. If it were not for the Nile, the greatest civilization in the world, the ancient Egyptian civilization, would not exist.
Ethiopia is supported by other external parties that have enmity with Egypt. Until now, Ethiopia has not produced electricity as it promised its people, and it has sufficient water reserves. Why?
The issue is purely political, and Ethiopia has dozens of rivers, why the Blue Nile? particulary
Egypt depends on the Nile water for 90% of Egypt's water sources
My greetings to you and the people of Jamaica, and I wish you peace and security
I think it's great if they can pull it off , bravo forward thinking.
Fascinating Great miracle👍👍👍❤️ Egypt
Egypt should send the exes water to the Quatarra depression, and turn it in to a lake, the under ground water would turn the desert in to a garden.
Great to see the country is spending its money on infrastructure which will benefit everyone.
God bless and protect Egypt!
Amazing great idea.
They built the pyramids....right ? An amazing project ! :)
Fresh water is never a bad investment.
Its not fresh water, its treated waste water.
until it's running out.
@@niconico3907 what's the difference, molecularly?
@@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 you don't know that it has been well treated, or if there is still waste in it. You don't know if the waste water treatment plant works as it is supposed to, has maintenance issue...
Good video!!! Just subscribed may your channel grow massively which I think it definitively will!! For your very informative
Great video and positive project.
Egyptians are masters at canal building, they'll nail this.
Ethiopia isn't the cause of Egypt's water problems. It's their water mismanagement and out of control birth rate. A very typical problem in the Middle East. Egypt has multiple dams itself. This has made land fertility drop. They could release more water themselves, but that would mean they would have to admit that they mismanaged it in the first place.
The Nile River regularly flooded, flushing out the trash and rats and feces of the Nile population. Then the Aswan dam came in and stopped the flooding, which was also depositing more carbon muck to fertilize the fields. Now they have to fertilize, which is expensive.
So they don't want to release water they need and they already have in reserve because they're worried to admit to someone that they have mismanaged their own water , expect that they didn't since they had water in reserve ? Goddd , I need to stop mismanaging my brain cells reading such utterly stupid comments .
Ethiopia is waging a proxy war against Egypt, just like Israel
Fertility rate in Egypt is 2.7 my friend , one of the lowest birth rate in Africa
@@مصريعربيوافتخر-ب5ز 2.76*. btw having a low fertility rate is not a good thing especially if 3/4 of your neighbors are much higher
Truly an amazing project.
Thus is excellent project, better to improve this planet then wasting money on other things.
Nice work!
Amazing Amazing Amazing! This is so awesome to see. What a way to improve a country with little water.
Stable but critical. Tuned in from Johnnesburg South Africa
Has anyone calculated the evaporation on that much water over that distance in a desert?
Don’t think they did that in the extensive research they conducted
5 m per year.
The smart thing to do would be to cover it with solar panels and provide extra power.
There are quite a few mistakes in this video :
1) This video said "The land is fertile". This is NOT true at all. I am currently working in Egypt on a project to turn the Sahara green. I have worked with the ubiquitous yellow clay here. It is USELESS for farming. The only way these farmers have been able to grow anything in the desert is through adding HUGE amounts of nitrates and other fertilizers
2) This video stated that Ethiopia created the dam not because it was low on water, but because they wanted the electricity. Ethiopia actually needs the dam for BOTH the electricity and the water. Ethiopia has been experiencing extreme weather changes since the 1990s, where they get years of drought and then a few years of flooding. The dam not only holds a huge amount of water back for Ethiopia in the dam reserves, but it also helps to recharge the aquifer in the country. And since the dam is in a high elevation, that means that the recharged aquifer discharges itself in the form of springs in lower levels. This not only keeps the trees and grasslands green (which is 100% necessary to prevent major droughts in the future) but the spring waters also contribute to the flow of the Blue Nile (which merges with the White Nile to create the Nile River. )
The dam resevoir is helping to keep the whole area green. Because if those trees and grass die off during a major drought, then less rainfall will occur in that region after the drought is over.
So Egypt needs that dam there to regulate the flow of water for the Nile in times of drought.
The problem is the water level for the Nile.
Egypt don't need to worry about that dam break, since Renaissance Dam is located at the south of Ethiopia so if dam breaks, it needs to go through about 1000km and 3 additional dams across Ethiopia first before reaching Egypt. Then it has to cross another 4 dams and ~1000km in Egypt to reach Cairo/delta region.
South of Ethiopia??!!?!! It's in the border with Sudan, it won't go through additional dams in Ethiopia! Did you mean Sudan???
Ok let's make this project even better. First by installing slow speed underwater turbines called Waterotors in all rivers, channels and streams with water moving 2 to 5 miles an hour to make electrical power and to make drinking water out of the air with atmospheric water generators. Second by installing both these ideas on offshore platforms, coastal cities could make clean drinking water and power to use back on land. Waterotors can work in tidel flow areas and the atmospheric water generators will work with, near a hundred percent efficiency just off the surface of the ocean to maximize water production. The advantage of this combination is that water made this way won't have the problems desalination plants have with saline and salty brine returning to the ocean. The sad part is that we waste miles and miles of unused potential electrical water power by not installing these units and they are a workable solution to large Dam projects. They work 24/7, won't harm fish, can be moved if needed and can be scaled up to meet any need. Staggering these units along river bottoms won't interfere with fish runs or navigation of boats and can supply power to very remote areas. Search it on TH-cam.
MAY THE ALMIGHTY ALLAH SWT GRANT THE EGYPTIAN NATION AND ITS PEOPLE THE PROSPERITY AND DEVELOPMENT THEY NEED InshaAllah Ameen S h jeelani
Only problem: he does not exist. Religions are man-made.
@@PBFoote-mo2zr Every particular god favors the culture and people that created him.
wow.. im so excited to .complete
This is the smartest thing Egypt has done for people in the last 130 years
How is pumping underground water in a desert sustainable?
The more you pump the more the ground sinks, Tulare lake has reformed in Southern California where they pumped it so dry some areas are down 20 feet in 30 years
The basin is massive, spans three countries, but yes use wisely.
That ground water could be important for the geology. If it's all removed, good luck. Most will evaporate anyway.
I love when people act like ground water is magic water from heaven. Besides, once it's gone, it's gone. It will take millennia for a desert to replenish it's ground water. But whatever, they only care about the next 20 years
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 groundwater is definitely one of those things that we need to have more respect for. powerful, yet scarce if we aren't careful with it
But Ghadaffi did it first and America destroyed it
Well said.
The US will have trouble doing this to bring water to drought impacted farmland due to land ownership where the owners would not want pipelines going through their property....