A correspondent for the Standard in Egypt and the Sudan in 1902-1903 explains, for non-engineers, how the Nile was regulated: the old basin irrigation, perennial irrigation, the Delta Barrage and its English engineers, the abolition of forced corvée labour and the building of reservoirs. The second half turns to the Sudan after the Mahdist wars.
A clear contemporary account of one of the great engineering projects of the British Empire and its politics. Download the free EPUB.