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... Nile waters annually in 1959 primarily in the Gezira scheme to using 18.3 billion m a year at the time this document was written . The 1959 Nile Waters Agreement allocates Sudan 18.5 billion m ' a year . With irrigation projects planned ...
... Nile waters annually in 1959 primarily in the Gezira scheme to using 18.3 billion m a year at the time this document was written . The 1959 Nile Waters Agreement allocates Sudan 18.5 billion m ' a year . With irrigation projects planned ...
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... Nile Valley the only agricultural area in the world where fertilizer use has not massively increased since the end of World War II . A second impact of silt deprivation considered is the effect on the brick - making industry . Silt is a ...
... Nile Valley the only agricultural area in the world where fertilizer use has not massively increased since the end of World War II . A second impact of silt deprivation considered is the effect on the brick - making industry . Silt is a ...
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... NILE VALLEY . John Waterbury , Syracuse University Press , 1979 ( 254 pages plus notes and index tables , graphs and maps ) . his is an exceptionally valuable book , the best we have found on the Aswan dam , as well as the water ...
... NILE VALLEY . John Waterbury , Syracuse University Press , 1979 ( 254 pages plus notes and index tables , graphs and maps ) . his is an exceptionally valuable book , the best we have found on the Aswan dam , as well as the water ...
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