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Bedouins by the Lake: Environment, Change, and Sustainability in Southern Egypt

Ahmed Belal and John Briggs

Print publication date: 2008

Print ISBN-13: 9789774161988

Published to Cairo Scholarship Online: September 2011

DOI: 10.5743/cairo/9789774161988.001.0001

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Wadi Allaqi: Changing Environments

Wadi Allaqi: Changing Environments

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Bedouins by the Lake
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Ahmed Belal

John Briggs

Joanne Sharp

Irina Springuel

Publisher:
American University in Cairo Press
DOI:10.5743/cairo/9789774161988.003.0003

This chapter explains the key environmental changes that have come about in Wadi Allaqi as a result of the construction of the Aswan High Dam. Clearly, the most significant impact is the presence of a large body of water in this otherwise hyperarid environment, but this has had further implications in terms of the formation of new soils through new patterns of sediment accumulation and loss. The flora and fauna of the area have also responded to this change.

Keywords:   environmental change, Aswan High Dam, dam construction, Lake Nasser, environmental impact

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