A great new hydrological project, in the best tradition of Amenenmhet I and Ptolemy I, was completed in the last quarter of the twentieth century in W
A great new hydrological project, in the best tradition of Amenenmhet I and Ptolemy I, was completed in the last quarter of the twentieth century in Wadi El Rayan, a large depression in the desert west of the Fayoum. Water now flows into this originally dry basin, 43 meters below sea level, to form two large lakes. Originally, there were suppose to be three lakes, but one of them dried up. The reason behind this project was that the Fayoum had a drainage problem Taken @Cairo, Egypt
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