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This work outlines the physical character of the Nile and the history and practice of regulating its floods, describing basin and perennial irrigation, barrages, reservoirs, dams, and the engineering and labour arrangements that made them possible. It examines technical problems such as the sudd, sediment and algal scourges, and evaluates past and proposed schemes for storage and control. The second half turns to administrative reconstruction in the Sudan, surveying urban rebuilding, legal reforms and efforts to suppress slavery, and considers education, commerce, taxation and the financial burden of territorial governance. The book links hydrological management to political and economic development across the Nile valley.
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