Egypt Is Building The World's Largest Artificial River In The Desert

Egypt has a water problem, to tackle this they are building the world's largest artificial river. This colossal mega project is already underway and there are big disputes over it. Why are Egypt building this giant artificial river mega project and what is the need for it. Today we look at the insane engineering behind the project and if it will actually work.
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[@TheImpossibleBuild]

Is this the coolest mega project in Africa right now?

[@MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists]

nope. its like 1978 actually!

[@obertscloud]

they need to build a forest like China in 10-20 years will be an oasis

[@tomwhite716]

What could POSSIBLY go wrong with that project?

[@mazensharkawy9525]

For those asking .. they are treating insane amounts of waste water to make them good for irrigation again

[@danielthompson3205]

Naw, the green wall is pretty cool. Especially if your under the trees.. cough

[@whispermason8052]

I'm proud of you Egypt. I'm an American with absolutely no stake in this, but have always thought we should be teraforming deserts. Way to go.

[@jordyb57]

What about black Africans??? You don’t care about them?

[@DarkLight-Ascending]

I was literally just thinking of this.

[@AJBesh]

If they built the pyramids, they can build anything. Power to you Egypt…love from Canada 🇨🇦 🇱🇾

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

that's the flag of libya

[@AJBesh]

@@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 Yes it is. From 🇱🇾 but working in 🇨🇦

[@sagishpreman7644]

Thanks to peaceful religion, Egyptians built the pyramids.

[@kareem43592]

​@@sagishpreman7644 ??

[@norandomness]

@@sagishpreman7644hallucinating much? You don’t know much about our ancient religion or current ones do you l😂

[@alnooooras]

Much love from Yemen 🇾🇪 ❤

[@busoko_Ismail2468]

African Union, the country of Egypt and our Egyptian neighbors carrying out giant projects in the Egyptian seas and on the borders of Egypt Chad and new roads and the Egyptian companies are the infrastructure partner in Chad 🇪🇬🇷🇴❤

[@warpeace6097]

As a lranian any development in Egypt makes me happy.❤

[@SinbadXSikander]

Jin Jiyan Azadi we love you too Khomaini Kosskesh 😜

[@jordyb57]

What about black Africans??

[@warpeace6097]

@@jordyb57 I wish him all the best .

[@DarkLight-Ascending]

Why? Just curious.

[@Papershields001]

I mean nobody should be surprised. Egypt is the OG of mega projects after all.

[@lookwhostaking6700]

That's 100% right

[@meyr1992]

dictators with micro-penis syndrome building large projects as compensation, seems to run in our blood, from ancient Pharaohs to today

[@mountianfolks]

Well, you are paying for it.

[@Aiwendill]

yep, they have that tradition since antiquity...

[@essyn3076]

Thank you Egypt for seeking an alternative. Egyptians have always thought ahead. This way, we can avoid a war with Ethiopia over the mega dam. Much love from Uganda

[@adelmahmoud1295]

Egypts population as of today (2023) is 105m, there’s no way Egypts population will be 150m by 2024.

[@russellamaru5175]

Egypt has some seriously bright, future thinking leaders and administrators that have implemented a mega-project of epic proportions. Very, very commendable!!

[@donaldkasper8346]

You want to save water, use dry toilets instead of flush toilets.

[@lookwhostaking6700]

​@@donaldkasper8346this is gross lol this is not the West go to do that shit in the West 🤮

[@ahmedshaker7769]

@@donaldkasper8346 Personal highgene is red line 😅😅😅

[@Pawelec801]

That would be the army

[@salecousin5470]

You are talking about a country that cannot feed its people without imports. A military dictatorship and below-average education system mixed with a lot of superstition

[@r.b.somers2052]

Best wishes Egypt from North Carolina, USA.

[@mountianfolks]

Well, you are paying for it.

[@francisleong4248]

7:14 is a map of Libya rather than Egypt. The least you can do is to show us a map of where this artificial river is.

[@gonzaloreyes9633]

Plan to blow renaissance

[@samratshashank4919]

They are planning to fill up Libyan depression..

[@soresabelay3548]

From Ethiopia, Congratulations to Egypt for taking the right track! This's what we wanted for all downstream countries. Dig your ground, cultivate your soil, and let your economy support the poor. We Ethiopians are well-known for our pan-Africanist approach to growing together we call it "Brotherhood". We only pray for the prosperity of the entire continent, including yours.

[@maralena137123]

We Africans must always work together for the development of Africa.

[@Usernam744]

😅

[@Usernam744]

You are an Ethiopian who wishes to cut off water to Egypt, but the plan will fail, so you pretend to love Egypt

[@euphgolf]

The copy for this video is so overwhelmingly positive, I would guess the narrator is literally reading the press release from the Egyptian and Chinese governments. No downsides, drawbacks, or possible harms? Not one person displaced? The impact of all that concrete? Some balance necessary.

[@gangar99]

Downside is forcing ethopia to keep releasing water or threaten to bomb their dam...

[@Langevloei-NL]

2:50 If the Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia collapsed, how is a diversion below the Aswan dam going to divert the flood water? The Roseires Dam in Sudan comes first. Then there is the Sennar Dam and Merowe Dam in Sudan before the water hits the Aswan Dam in Egypt. The diversion starts its way in Ezbet Sherif further downstream past Caïro. It looks more like an inlet. Caïro sits higher up the river, therefore is a diversion downstream of it meaningless as flood protection. FYI An artificial river is called a canal.

[@TukozAki]

This.

[@user-jk4yu8mi2f]

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is the highest and lowest in the world

[@Comeback_.]

Yes, it is called a canal if its source is a river. But if you created it out of nothing from sewage and agricultural water, it is called an artificial river, no matter how long or short it is

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

@hillbillyintheasia6122 59 seconds ago (edited) 8 billion ppl need get rid of 4 billion to save the world, its humans that killing the world.

[@nelmasryn]

Go to Google Earth and search for Tushka lakes, you will be surprised. In case of high floods, the excess water is diverted through a canal located to the south of the High Dam. This canal transports the water to a network of irrigation canals to irrigate hundreds of thousands of hectares. This main artificial canal also allows excess water to flow and fill a series of interconnected depressions in the Western Desert of Egypt. These lakes are the safety net for Egypt during high floods. Maintaining the irrigation canals and the mainstream of the River Nile along with the new irrigation canals of this megaproject (called the New Delta Project) serve to increase their capacity to receive more water in case of a dangerously high flood.

[@wilfredomacaraig7927]

Good job Egypt. Excellently Beautiful Project for the people of Egypt.

[@mountianfolks]

Well, you are paying for it.

[@abde4645]

@mountianfolks huh

[@mountianfolks]

@@abde4645 I looked it up. UN money is paying for it. Who funds 90% of the UN? America.

[@everettwalker9141]

40 years ago my brother in law Was drilling oil 2:18 wells in Egypt . They drilled into an underground river and offered it ( a free flowing 13 inch stream of water) and the Egyptian government made them cement it.

[@captiannemo1587]

Rerouting underground water can, and usually does, cause unexpected problems.

[@tomgreene7942]

@@captiannemo1587 Every well ever drilled does just that, it reroutes the water. They probably had it capped because somebody in the government had exclusive rights to the drinking water monopoly. Don't want competition? Shut it down.

[@jirislavicek9954]

This is a project that absolutely makes sense 👍👍👍 Egypt needs to sort its food and water security. Also these terraforming projects are great for environmental, aesthetics and culture reasons.

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

@hillbillyintheasia6122 59 seconds ago (edited) 8 billion ppl need get rid of 4 billion to save the world, its humans that killing the world.

[@IHWKR]

Not really. Just means someplace down stream will loose water where other people live.

[@alberthusby113]

Egypt is the last country on the river nile. No one is further down that river.

[@ryanp6267]

Unfortunately the negative consequences of projects like this are unpredictable and often outweigh any benefit. The original damming of the Nile caused significant agricultural problems and increase in disease from mosquitoes.

[@ranger2316]

We use a lot of reclaimed water in Florida for irrigating our lawns and gardens...certainly nothing on this scale...but it works great! I commend them for their project.

[@mountianfolks]

Well, you are paying for it.

[@calamfischer7009]

Well done Egypt!! Y'all gonna prosper for ages if you keep having people making decisions like this

[@benediktmorak4409]

i remember a water shortage on the Nile already some 30 or more years ago. I was on vacation and the journey back to Cairo was on river ships. But the Ministry of Agriculture refused to release more war into the Nile because it was needed to water the fields. And definitely not for about 20 Tourist ships. We were lucky, we travelled on a smaller older ship. With an old, wise Captain. He turned the ship around and was more or less - digging - through all the silt and muck. While the bigger and more modern ships had to wait a whole week to get more water under the keel. ( being a Chef) I felt only sorry for the head chef and his kitchen crew. They after all had to feed some 200 passengers on each ship for a whole week extra. Suppose after the Chefs was through, every local food shop and market stall must have been empty!

[@benediktmorak4409]

@@minhsun5441 and another part, special when it is a -President- or the likes, goes into a private bank account in Austria, Switzerland, the Bahamas, or one of those countries.

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

@hillbillyintheasia6122 59 seconds ago (edited) 8 billion ppl need get rid of 4 billion to save the world, its humans that killing the world.

[@nettlarry]

The map of Lybia was really helpful to pinpoint the location. Ancient aquifiers don't refill so it's a one time usage without an emergency exit left in a couple of decades.

[@abdimalikmohamed1269]

Egypt is preparing to next level, amazing.

[@f.michaelmontgomerylcswlmf6126]

Wishing all the people of Egypt peace, health and prosperity from America.

[@teodorojaranilla5008]

from Philippines here...I wish EGYPT to RISE again!!! GO GO GO EGYPT!!

[@NO1jkpg]

I think this is very extremly important to do even if the country dont have problems, because we need to take back the dessert no matter what. I wish egypt the best.

[@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403]

I agree 100%. More and more, countries need to fight and take back desert land. Of course, not all countries have the resources, both monetarily nor natural landscape, to do so.

[@markfox1545]

Yes indeed. Take back that trifle!!😅😅

[@JohnBinay]

This video is so confusing. It's so poorly edited and I can't follow the line of discussion. And why does it show a map of Lybia when the topic is about Egypt?

[@bisoafuayaa74]

Right!

[@TheMoonDejesus]

I watched another video that described it better and even then coming to this video with a good visual understanding I realize this video obscured the understanding I had. My understanding is this river flows from near the Red Sea in opposite direction as Nile. If connected to Nile it would form a loop. At that point presently all the waste water from Egypt flows into the sea. This project will capture rather than discard the water and divert through waste water treatment then onto a large swath of agricultural land. I’m unclear on how it mitigates Nile overflows

[@Samrathvk]

True. Nice try.

[@dennisodok]

I am tired from a nasty long hike and this makes perfect sense to me. Please be polite😅

[@cmartin5903]

Maybe because Libya is an example of what he speaks of. Great and wonderful experiment 🥼

[@shamsmujaddidi4586]

Great report. Thanks for the video

[@ron.v]

This is exciting news for a country that holds a special place in the hearts of the world. May God bless these people to succeed.

[@mrbaab5932]

Which God? Horus?

[@amerhamad-zp6ge]

As an Egyptian I'm very grateful to have your well wishes. I hope you too can be blessed. Also, there are tons of other mega projects that egypt is constructing. Egypt hopes to be a first world country by 2040. It has implemented a vision 2030 to catapult the country forward. Even the biggest critics of the Gove are astonished at the scale and speed this government has been working since 2015. Politics aside, the future looks extremely bright and you have to give credit to this government.

[@meyr1992]

@@amerhamad-zp6gewtf are you talking about, do you have any idea what real life in egypt is like? are you part of the 1% rich that have no clue about anything? we are suffering from extreme inflation, we are rated caa by moody which means our economy is on the brink of collapse, billions of dollars in debt, more than 60% of the population below the poverty line, the government has been cutting power to save on gas to sell it to other countries… not mention the dictatorship we live in, tens of thousands of political prisoners who spoke out against the government

[@Jeet57556]

Great effort to bring back Egypt's wealth in natural resources through artificial methods, hope all ends in full success, it will also change the tough climatic conditions in Egypt and neighbouring countries

[@pineapplesareyummy6352]

Meanwhile, Libya under the enlightened leadership of Muammar Gaddafi already constructed Africa's most extensive irrigation system which allowed agriculture to flourish in the desert. Under his leadership, there was free education, healthcare and housing, all provided for by oil & gas revenues. Libya was the richest country in Africa with a first world GDP per capita. That was until the West violently overthrew and executed him.

[@CraigTheBrute-co3ys]

He did good things & bad. Let us not go to extremes.

[@perfectallycromulent]

Libya has a population less than 8 million, there's no comparison to dealing with a nation of over 100 million.

[@yahudi7253]

​@@CraigTheBrute-co3ysyeah and country was functioning. Now everyone in libya is miserable previously 1% might be. Finally we are net negative scenario. Nothing achieved killing gaddafi

[@juliane__]

Praising a criminal, just to claim some atttention, wow, i am not so impressed at all. He murdered, he invaded the Tschad for no reason, but staying in power, he let his people pump water from underground, that dried up after a few years, yeah they are still pumping, but not nearly as much as it was, because there is not much water underground to sustain decades of irrigation and basic water supply. Yeah, Gaddafi was a true hero maniac doing just shortsited things, i praise him for that completly. (That was irony if you didn't notice.)

[@pineapplesareyummy6352]

​@@juliane__ I didn't praise George W. Bush or Tony Blair or David Cameron or Emmanuel Macron - that would really be praising criminals. As for Gaddafi, he's great. He presided over a stable government where people had good quality of life. Everything turned into shxt when the West waged a war of aggression against his government. No one since has been able to put the country back together. If there was justice in the world, the West will plunge into its civil war soon, and Muslim countries, China, Russia, etc., will join in and do to the West what it has been doing to other people. Now, pxss off!

[@A1441]

This is a very exciting development and may prove to be an alternative solution to the looming dispute over the Nile river dilemma.

[@MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists]

Go to school, learn, come back, write something intelligent

[@Hanoshf]

@@MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists go to your parents and ask them to teach you some manners.

[@omranelsweefy966]

there is not dispute about water, Ethiopia has 1000 billion cubic meters of rain every year, and refuses to give Egypt and Sudan about 85 billions only. Ethiopia is evil, all it needs is to cause harm to its neighbors, as it has already did to Somalia with the same scenario.

[@ChomoBidensMules]

​@@MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylistsquit playing with your daddy's weewee.

[@slicbro]

@@MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists Your stupidity is showing.

[@GGN-92]

That was a very and very informative and interesting video. From the deepest of my heart... Thank you and take care.

[@SnowTiger45]

Egypt is going to result the same as the Colorado River and the Hoover Dam. Creating 127 km's of open canals for water to pass without covering them only provides a ton of surface area from which evaporation can take place. Just look at the water levels above the Hoover dam and I'll bet there is more precipitation there than there is in the Sahara even if it's only 1 or 2 mm per year !

[@fparent]

Egypt should also consider covering the canal with solar panels. Double win!

[@jordanwhiteflower8125]

solar panel? dont you know that solar panel in the desirt is short live? as tiny dust particles in the desert can easily cover the solar panels? second just imagine if you cover it with solar panels which is more useful to have small boats traversethat river or just waste it with solar panel ? anyway that river will be a waste of money cause they cannot prevent sandstorm and when sandstorm sits in thats done

[@thomassherer5962]

As they are doing in CA.

[@ahmadradwan5914]

​@@jordanwhiteflower8125 We live near the desert some 20000 years ago , but u know better 😅

[@johaquila]

I don't see the point. Evaporation is usually just what you want in the desert, to create humidity for plants. Whatever doesn't evaporate will flow into the Mediterranean. Do you want to protect the Mediterranean from getting too salty? I expect that part of what makes this project relatively cheap is that they needn't fully prevent the water from disappearing into the ground, just limit it. The water that does go into the ground probably just replenishes the ground water. There is probably no big risk of it creating swamps in that area.

[@esioanniannaho5939]

Exactly what I was thinking. India will be doing this over their canals. Interesting that China has been an inspiration in this. They r leading the world in development. Also their solar farms in dessert underneath have goats or veg in the shade. They will build as many each year as USA has in total. Far better than the Ever Wars the west promotes. Sick of that Sh1te !

[@myhandle370]

This river might be also covered by solar panels to harvest electricity, which is much effective in the dessert and in such way it will save huge amount of land. And it also will reduce the water evaporation. Great job Egypt! With huge respect and support from Israel.

[@sdspivey]

The dam is only a short term problem, once the lake is full, the outflow of the dam will mostly equal the original Blue Nile flow.

[@benediktmorak4409]

How long is short term? 5 years? 10 years? and what in the meantime?

[@Snowfox23]

Egypt will bomb the dam trust me! Ethiopia is doomed

[@sdspivey]

@@benediktmorak4409 I see an estimate of 4-5 years. They started filling in July 2020, so it should be at least half full already. I can't find a current fill level. In the meantime, there is still plenty of water passing through the dam.

[@niconico3907]

The lake behind the dam has a lot of area of standing water, a lot of water will evaporate, so there wont be as much outflow than inflow. It will also change the water temperature, when and how much the water flows.

[@edbruder9975]

@@niconico3907 They're estimating 3 to 5% evaporation in Ethiopia. Water temps vary by reservoir depending on whether the outlflow comes from the surface of the reservoir or the bottom. The video shows water overflowing the dam, but since the dam's not full, that's misrepresented.

[@essyn3076]

All Africans should be happy with projects like this. We have been labeled poor for far too long. We need to change this and God has blessed us.

[@greyostrich4377]

Good video!!! Just subscribed may your channel grow massively which I think it definitively will!! For your very informative

[@mohdjibly6184]

wow ...Amazing project and at amazing development cost ....thanks for sharing

[@Jenifer_G]

Good luck to Egypt, sounds a great idea.

[@whiteafrican5895]

Great video and positive project.

[@MarkBarrack]

About time. Glad to hear. Hope all goes well.

[@StevenPhelps-sr8co]

Absolutely amazing!

[@paulristow9066]

Amazing great idea.

[@kamilalambert1802]

Fascinating Great miracle👍👍👍❤️ Egypt

[@shane3669]

Nice work!

[@trevorraycraft6457]

I think it's great if they can pull it off , bravo forward thinking.

[@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188]

As a now former traveler to Egypt, I 8 times sailed on the Nile and it was amazing to se how short the distance from the Nile to the dessert actually was! I have also flown over, to Aswan, and got demonstrated how to use the swimming vest!!! I do hope that the population will be able to use the huge amount of land for agriculture, and finish the many unfinished houses (For tax reasons!) 😄!

[@MajorWolfgangHochstetter]

I've been to the Giza Plateau. The Nile really only covers a narrow area. Building rivers and reclaiming the desert and turning it into farmable land is really the only way to go. I watch these various projects being undertaken elsewhere and they always make me smile, and fill me with hope for future generations. I wish projects like this were being started in the USA. We also need to construct canals, and or pipelines to move predictable flood waters to reservoirs in our deserts! We have the means to do it.

[@hosamelsayed5723]

The "unfinished house" in Egypt is an idea that never die!

[@lanemimnaugh7486]

It makes total sense the Nile river is so close to the desert. Because a million years ago it used to be a tropical wetland. My favorite era of Egypt, was when God destroyed the long time pegan idol worshipping City. ☝️🙏

[@hosamelsayed5723]

@@lanemimnaugh7486 historically and archeologically speaking, Nile valley was never tropical. In fact north Africa was mostly under water then later desert except for green areas in the north of Maghreb region and the nile valley. So I don't know what you're talking about..

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

8 billion ppl need get rid of 4 billion to save the world, its humans that killing the world.

[@samibahig1702]

Amazing project.. bright futur for egypt! God bless it people, it governement and God blesses egypt with a lot of prosperity!

[@reynaldbonilla4784]

Truly an amazing project.

[@jonel5001]

In Finland, Päijänne tunneli is 120km. It delivery water for million people. Building started 1972 and was ready 1982.

[@Deeplycloseted435]

One km per month. Amazing.

[@jonel5001]

@@Deeplycloseted435 its tunnel thru basic rock, water insulation etc. Not easy in -70`s equipment.

[@UncompressedWAVmusic]

Incredible mind boggling water project that the rest of the world should study and learn from.

[@user-jk4yu8mi2f]

🇪🇬: Thank you

[@terranceyeo3087]

and when no one has any water where they will want to live, the new nation

[@danielmocsny5066]

The rest of the world should learn from Egypt's mind-bogglingly foolish population growth. Unfortunately, humans are bad at learning the Earth is finite.

[@mattapple2105]

Very good video, no annoying background music or other useless stuff, the fact´s well presented : )

[@mcdougal0]

Great to see the country is spending its money on infrastructure which will benefit everyone.

[@aligmal5031]

i really like how my government here in egypt build these mega projects without noise or propaganda like alot of ppl here in egypt don't even know that the government is farming a new delta made of 2.8 million acre and has built the longest artificial river and another reason for that beside the low noise news about such projects is how fast the government build these projects like these project get built in like 10 month - 2.5 year

[@2036scott]

Yet here in Europe, we talk a lot about all these cool ideas and projects but still after 20yrs we are yet to see anything.

[@okreidieh]

@@2036scott They are yet to see anything in egypt either. Except for a currency crash from decreased foreign currency because of overspending on ambitious ..... uhm

[@aligmal5031]

@@okreidieh wrong we are already seeing the projects that are done like the agriculture projects look at egypt agriculture exports the electricity projects back then we had power outage every day for like 12 hours now it rarely happens the new roads and train stations that are already finished and we use that save time and fuel money and reduced accidents the suez canal projects which shows with how many international companies are interested in it and how it saved ships waiting time from 11 hours to 3 hours decent life project the first part of it is done already my brother was working in the first part of the project back in 2022 and many other things also the currency "crash" which is not a crash it's a shortage we are not in a crisis here is happening due to the ukraine war and the US interest rate going up not because overspending most of the projects are done in LE currency not $

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

i just hope it goes well

[@JT-ok6re]

Amazing Amazing Amazing! This is so awesome to see. What a way to improve a country with little water.

[@baldassarealessi1007]

Thank you video brilliant compliment

[@Pawelec801]

Egyptians have constructing epic structures in their blood.

[@thorium222]

Sounds to good to be true, I hope it works out as planned.

[@Ma7mouod1]

I believe they opened it a couple of days ago and its in the testing phase rn

[@ngqabuthodube2068]

The project has nothing to do with water. It’s about boosting the economy by engaging in a massive project. It’s good for job creation. And puts them as a global power house

[@amerhamad-zp6ge]

​@@ngqabuthodube2068one of many megaprojects that egypt is constructing. Just look at all the videos about Egyptian megaprojects and you'll be astonished at the progress.

[@saif9586]

You were showing a map of Libya at minute 7:13. Nothing to do with Egypt. That map is the Nubian Aquifer water project that Ghadaafi built.

[@raclark2730]

As bombed by Western war planes, How helpful of them.

[@Jamshedac-gf4bh]

Good one

[@mohamedeldemery1647]

Invest in Egypt ❤🇪🇬🇪🇬

[@markvanderknoop131]

Great idea so the water can evaporate more easily and faster.

[@leserickson7057]

Loved your video, very informative, leads me to believe that egyptians are serious and are moving ahead with construction to help the nation compete in the world economy. Better than fighting amongst themselves, it's all about survival go egypt go, much success soon and prosper as a society all over the world.

[@mrbaab5932]

Look up USA Salton Sea, a big failure.

[@steveolson69]

One way to get rid of the extra water from global warming

[@user-jk4yu8mi2f]

🇪🇬: Thank you, but there are problems we face, such as terrorism. We eliminated most of them, and this was the reason for halting progress, but there are still some of them.

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

@hillbillyintheasia6122 59 seconds ago (edited) 8 billion ppl need get rid of 4 billion to save the world, its humans that killing the world.

[@pamelapeel4893]

Wishing Egypt best of luck bringing this great project in budget & on time 😊

[@louieballescas3524]

wow.. im so excited to .complete

[@user-by4or8vs4x]

After the 3-4 years when the nile in egypt goes back to the regular flow they will be happy that they built this is it will help beyond measures ❤❤❤but Ethiopia and Egypt share a long history and should not war bet between each other

[@staninjapan07]

I bet it's quite a sight to see. I wonder if tourists going to Egypt to see the historical sites are now also visiting the project? It's probably not encouraged.

[@angelobkoljenovic9528]

This is the smartest thing Egypt has done for people in the last 130 years

[@Skattie]

AMAZING ❤

[@nathanngumi8467]

Great project!

[@aqeel-3771]

Gaddafi was doing a similar project for his country but his plan was to dig up water from the desert and bring it to the populated areas. Would have been completed by now if was not for his death contract by France and nato allies.😢

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

I believe that is already delivering water

[@domenicozagari2443]

Egypt should send the exes water to the Quatarra depression, and turn it in to a lake, the under ground water would turn the desert in to a garden.

[@280StJohnsPl]

They built the pyramids....right ? An amazing project ! :)

[@user-nw3bj4yh5u]

A great project prevents the rapid rise of sea water and helps many countries not to sink

[@yotzap]

No solution will work if Egypt's population comtinues to grow

[@user-oi2rd8yl2u]

Farming under the Sun in the desert with non destilled water usually leads to formation of crusts of salts that kill the plants. How will they prevent this?

[@sneckotheveggieavenger9380]

Just like any crackpot dictatorship. Jailing those who try to highlight it

[@inmost_being]

Stable but critical. Tuned in from Johnnesburg South Africa

[@jonjones4972]

I love it. Good job Egypt. No need to depend on the Nile. Where there’s will there’s always away. We can all live in peace and grow together.

[@user-dj9mk8op7m]

There is nothing that can replace the waters of the Nile. It is a historical right for Egypt. If it were not for this Nile, ancient Egyptian civilization would not have existed. This is just one of the projects to increase the agricultural area to achieve self-sufficiency and export. This requires more water than the water of the Nile, so we are turning to other alternatives to the Nile, but the water of the Nile will not be given up. It is life or death for us as Egyptians.

[@mikerock8177]

In America can't even fill our giant bathtub the Grand canyon with fresh water we need to start building infrastructure everywhere and sustainable jobs

[@alex41693]

Would be beautiful to see the grand canyon full again.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

😂😅. FYI The Grand Canyon has never been 'full of water' as you put it though I think what you are referring to is lakes Mead and Powell. They are both doing much better thanks to the record snowpack by the way. The reality is we can't depend on this bounty as a regular occurrence. Look at the last 22 years and you'll see that a long term drought has been the norm. Combine that with the growing population, increasing agriculture and these will only begin to decline before too long. And the answer is not more infrastructure, but people learning to live with less and many moving to areas with more accessible water like the Great Lakes region.

[@hengongchua6250]

That's not your politicians and government first priority. Their first priority is instigating more war around the world and more businesses and more incomes for the military industrial complex.

[@thomassherer5962]

It was never 'Full'. You must mean Lake Mead, which is miles downstream.

[@shannonjaensch3705]

Grand Canyon......Possibly not a result from huge amount of years of water shaping but possibly from ancient mining for whatever value it had to give

[@sujandangi]

Fantastic project that promotes water recycling and sustainable agriculture. It could be a great case study for similar projects in countries such as India which uses huge amounts of fresh ground water for agriculture.

[@asgglass2709]

India has the Pani foundation which is doing great for the country namely Maharashtra and Gurarat, in the deserts. Building rivers in the country cutting across the states ruled by the feudal lords of India will only exacerbate the already unreliable political uncertainty in India among the BJP, Congress, the Tamil Malayalam, and thousands of others, in the country. So what Egypt is doing is great since the Sisisi government can put the rest of the political parties in absolute check whereas in chaotic democratic India who will come into power the next time round whether, Modi, Gandhi, or Lalu Parsad, still remains to be seen, so this project is not attainable, in democratic India.

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

@hillbillyintheasia6122 59 seconds ago (edited) 8 billion ppl need get rid of 4 billion to save the world, its humans that killing the world.

[@studytime2570]

@@asgglass2709 democracy is actually a strength. And India is 5th largest economy in the world. It has built the world's largest lift irrigation project to name a achievement in a similar field in recent years. Pretty inconclusive haiku btw.

[@DavidJohnson-yg8qm]

Morocco Libya Tunisia Sudan could all benefit from water treatment to fresh water. Edit Desalination is becoming cheaper with osmosis

[@JaneSoole]

How fascinating.

[@MegsCarpentry-lovedogs]

Subscribed....so interesting and to read the comments as well👍 🇨🇦

[@emmanueluzoigwe6385]

But Ghadaffi did it first and America destroyed it

[@Nanocology]

Well said.

[@JosephDiveley]

Fresh water is never a bad investment.

[@niconico3907]

Its not fresh water, its treated waste water.

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

until it's running out.

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

@@niconico3907 what's the difference, molecularly?

[@niconico3907]

@@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 you don't know that it has been well treated, or if there is still waste in it. You don't know if the waste water treatment plant works as it is supposed to, has maintenance issue...

[@danielanspach5401]

Incredible.

[@Ibis2012]

God bless and protect Egypt!

[@vossejongk]

Ah yes let's deplete the underground aquafier even more

[@raclark2730]

It spans three countries and is almost as big as Egypt its self. I could bring great things to North Africa, but yes use wisely.

[@RiannaRichardsOfficial]

❤❤👏🇺🇸I am so happy for Egypt!🇺🇸

[@lookwhostaking6700]

Thanks, u are always welcome 🥰

[@Morgan2Elyas]

From egypt Thanks to u

[@sharpenkeytone]

If this Egyptian mega project is successfully implemented without any problems disrupting its smoothness, I believe Egypt can accelerate its economic progress by a long and efficient leap at the same time Egypt can overcome its relatively static economy and low currency value for decades.

[@aleksanderkuncwicz7277]

Thats good hopefully north Africa will build enough rivers to turn in it mostlty green.

[@myplane150]

This should been done decades ago. More countries need to make the desert more arable on a vast scale by doing things like this. What a wonderful difference this will make to the desert...☺

[@parmodseda3877]

Thus is excellent project, better to improve this planet then wasting money on other things.

[@lrg3834]

I applaud the Egyptian government for its efforts to increase food production and provide more water for the masses. However, get that population figure down, down, down. When Egypt had 100 million people, I thought that was too much. 150?! Nuts!!!

[@Hanoshf]

150 is not accurate, the Egyptian population is 105m which goes up to 115 when adding refugees.

[@lrg3834]

@@Hanoshf , that's a bit better, but still too much, given food imports. A viable, healthy nation should be 100% self reliant when it comes to food. But is Egypt in worse shape than the U.K.? The U.K. imports a little more than 50% of all food consumed by its population. And this is 'developed' nation state?

[@jimmywrangles]

Egyptians are masters at canal building, they'll nail this.

[@Forseti2]

Hmm, I'm really skeptical about this project - they will be relying only on water treatment plant as a source of water (water from Nile river won't be used). First - will it be enough to cover needs of agriculture, power plants, etc.? Second - this is open canal in the desert - the evaporation rate will be massive. Third - they are talking about underground wells, will they also use them as a source of water? This is limited resource.

[@Nevzke]

He's talked of the fresh water acquifires that Ben found, its waters are to be additional water.

[@antred11]

@@Nevzke He does have a point, though. Such aquifers usually take tens of thousands of years to fill. I hope they don't intend to rely on them too much, because it won't be sustainable in the long term.

[@kimberlylewis5820]

There is plenty to be skeptical about. That 5B is either a straight up lie or some shady deals are going on in the background.

[@overcome8628]

Well, I think many other countries will have to do things like this due to human population growth, and having to feed them. And maybe it would help with rising seas if a lot of countries do the same thing.

[@raclark2730]

Its ok while there will be a short period of continued growth. We are heading towards a population bust due to declining fertility and birth rates globally.

[@NotDuncan]

We’re in a population decline though

[@raclark2730]

@@NotDuncan A lot of people are not aware what's going on. And some are being led astray by those still pushing population for green fear mongering.

[@kiwitrainguy]

There is such a thing as sex without pregnancy.@@HaleSage-sr8uz

[@howdarei6761]

beautifull

[@JoeyBlogs007]

That ground water could be important for the geology. If it's all removed, good luck. Most will evaporate anyway.

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

I love when people act like ground water is magic water from heaven. Besides, once it's gone, it's gone. It will take millennia for a desert to replenish it's ground water. But whatever, they only care about the next 20 years

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 groundwater is definitely one of those things that we need to have more respect for. powerful, yet scarce if we aren't careful with it