And if it happens that way, it will affect a lot more than just 102 million Egyptians' drinking water and Egypt's scarce supplies of irrigation for farming.
So, what are some of those environmental consequences? Are we pulling more water out of the ground, so to speak, to make the land arable or to water the agriculture?
Environmentalists in the area of say the deaths were caused by the canal that typically delivers water to the lake being diverted for agricultural irrigation.
Irrigation agriculture and fish farming provide ideal living conditions for the snails carrying schistosomiasis and for flukes that burrow through our skin as we wade through the feces-laden water.
Tree-Type Irrigation Pipe Network Planning and Design Method Using ICSO-ASV Research on tree-type irrigation pipe networks is an important component of agricultural water-saving projects.