Excerpt from The Assu n Reservoir and Lake Moeris: A Lecture Delivered at a Meeting of the Khedivial Geographical Society, Cairo, 16th January, 1904
The Assouan Reservoir at its present level contains one milliard of cubic metres of water which will suffice for the conversion of half a million acres to perennial irrigation, adding to the wealth of the country. But though the dam was only com pleted at the end of 1902, already the whole of the water has been devoted to special tracts, and the Government is reluctantly compelled to refuse all applications for water. This has been an unexpected blow to the country, which had been waiting patiently these six years for the long-promised reservoir. While the whole world is crying for that long stapled cotton which in its highest grades is the speciality Of Egypt, the Egyptian landowners of 15 millions of acres are compelled to wait perhaps for many years, while every country under the sum, which can grow cotton, is trying to acclimatize their special product, and they themselves are doomed to sit idle.
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