Egypt trying to plan for rising waters killing cropland (food supply)

[ensho]

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index.php?smp=&lang=eng


Rising sea levels will threaten 15 percent of the Nile Delta by 2020, the rich agricultural area which is home to about half of the 75 million Egyptians, Environment Minister George Maged said on Monday. "Many of the towns and urban areas in the north of the Delta will suffer from the rise in the level of the Mediterranean with effect from 2020 and about 15 percent of Delta land is under threat from the rising sea level and the seepage into the ground water," he told a parliamentary committee. The minister quoted technical studies by his ministry, in conjunction with the United Nations, for his assessment of the danger and said he was asking the foreign ministry to start an international campaign to seek urgent solutions. Egyptian newspapers have quoted foreign reports on the potential threat to the Nile Delta, an alluvial plain much of which lies only a few metres (feet) above sea level, but the government has said little to alert people to the problem. A study by the U.N. Environment Programme says that a rise of 0.5 metres (20 inches) would displace 3.8 million people and damage 1,800 square km (700 square miles) in the Delta. A rise of one metre (39 inches) would displace 6.1 million people and damage 4,500 square km (1,700 square miles) of farmland, the study added. )
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tick, tick, tick, is dinner ready? can I have a drink of water?

[msongs]

1. maybe the nile will create a new delta, farther inland, as the sea advances nt

[DadOf2LittleAngels]

3. a healthy delta system

take a *long* time for form

[lonestarnot]

2. Egyptian refugees. Hoy boy.

[BrotherBuzz]

4. What did the Dutch do to reclaim land from the sea?

Sacramento delta was reclaimed with dikes, too. It will be expensive and take a long to to complete, so they better start digging and dredging soon.