NILE IRRIGATION

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 46, 23 August 1927, Page 9

NILE IRRIGATION

TWO CROPS PER ANNUM

(British Official Wireless.) BTTG£Y, 20th August. Following the recent announcement that the firm of Sir John Jackson, Ltd., had received a contract for a new Nile barrage at Nagh Hamadi, Messrs..Baasomes and Rapier, Ltd., have now obtained an order for the necessary, sluice-gates and operating machines.' The scheme forms the next step ia Nile irrigation, which begun in : 1899 with the construction of the famous Aswan dam, followed by the Esna barrage, built in 1908, and the Sennaur dam, opened last year. The site for t the new barrage, which will be over half a mile in length, is 500 miles upriver, between the existing barrages ofl Assiut and Esna. It will effect the irrigation of 500,000 acres at all Reasons of the year, which formerly was only; possible at time of high flood. This will enable two crops per nimnffi to^ be grown instead of one, and also will' avoid the risks of incomplete irrigations due to low levels and consequent f«llnr<£ ...'.",' : ■-.—. -;•;_■_•;