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irrrespective t1_j2d82ml wrote

Isn’t an artificial river just a canal?

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Procrastubatorfet t1_j2daxy6 wrote

Technically there's no issue calling it a canal. Canals are usually for the conveyance of boats. Sometimes people will call it a canal when it's fresh water / irrigation.

I'd throw in the word aquifer just so there's no way we can all settle on a single word to call this.

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Jade176 t1_j2dkbvg wrote

Right? I was thinking the same thing. Or even an Aqueduct? Granted I have no idea what the purpose of this artificial river is.

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3maradel OP t1_j2dvcz9 wrote

to green the desert

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clemfandangeau t1_j2e8nh5 wrote

isn’t that the Nile did every year before they built that infernal dam?

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3maradel OP t1_j2eiwt2 wrote

which one

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clemfandangeau t1_j2et2va wrote

one of the Aswan dams, i thought the dam disrupted the natural yearly flooding cycle downriver

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3maradel OP t1_j2f2z4z wrote

the flood used to destroy the crop so they built a dam to hold the water in flood season and store the extra water in a lake but this project is basically extending the nile to the western desert and it has nothing to do with Aswan dam

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No-Ima-rapper t1_j2f3bju wrote

There is only one Nile

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3maradel OP t1_j2f4hit wrote

bro i was asking which dam like thanks for the new information sherlock

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3maradel OP t1_j2d9jln wrote

no its like a river but man made as i understand but no canal is like the suez or panama canal

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