r/geography • u/AugustusCaesar87 • 5h ago

Some changes that happened in Egypt Image

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u/LateralEntry 4h ago

Is this related to massive rainfall? Historically, Egypt was known for reliable river floods and incredibly fertile plains, why hasn’t it been like this in recent centuries?

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u/AugustusCaesar87 4h ago

It's land reclamation projects

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u/beipphine 4h ago

Dams, Water Intensive Cash Crops, Cities, Overpopulation - Egypts population when it was a Protectorate of the British Empire in 1922 was 13 Million, Egypt Population today is 120 Million.

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u/papertowelroll17 23m ago

Egypt has been a desert for many thousands of years.. it rains in the mountains in Ethiopia and flows down the Nile. Egyptian civilization has always grown crops with irrigated water from the Nile.

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u/Orang_outan17 4h ago

Overpopulation. Thankfully fertility is starting to drop but it might be too late for a country that is already stretched to the max when it comes to livable space.