Water and Energy Abstracts
Open Access
  • Year: 2004
  • Volume: 14
  • Issue: 1

18. Transforming the Desert

  • Author:
  • Paul Shepherd
  • Total Page Count: 1
  • Page Number: 11 to 11

(WATER 21, December 2003, pp. 37–38).

Abstract

Harnessing water from the Nile, Egypt's South Valley Development Project aims to substantially increase the proportion of the desert country that is habitable, and enable the development of new agricultural and industrial communities. Author visited consulting engineer Hamza Associates at the project site to see how the work is progressing.

Keywords

Transforming the desert, Habitable