2. 95% of Egypt’s population live along the River Nile. A narrow strip of cultivated land is used by farmers.

3. No more flooding only perennial irrigation

4. Traditional irrigation World’s oldest machine Nilometer measures height of flood 20 th Century innovation Sakia

6. Home to relatively few Nubians. Site for dam on local granite for strong foundations & building material Gravity flow downstream

9. Power station Power for fertiliser industry to replace fertile silt left by previous flooding on fields downstream

10. Temple of Abu Simbel rescued from the rising lake waters but many other antiquities lost

11. Perennial Irrigation Irrigation all year 3 or 4 crops a year More land cultivated even away from the floodplain (New Valley) Food & export crops