Issues and Challenges in Spatial and Temporal Water Allocation in the Nile Delta

“Egypt is a gift of the Nile,” wrote Herodotus, and indeed, without the Nile there would be no Egypt as the world knows it. Egypt is mainly dependent on the flow in the Nile River (with an agreed share of 55.5 BCM) and it receives about 1.3 BCM rainfall annually (mainly along the north coast). The o...

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Main Authors: Wouter Wolters, Robert Smit, Mohamed Nour El-Din, Eman Sayed Ahmed, Jochen Froebrich, Henk Ritzema
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-04-01
Series:Sustainability
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/8/4/383