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National Geographic : 1982 Dec
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upper Egypt in the 1960s. The Nile's re duced flow has brought trouble downriver along Egypt's coastline. Sardines used to swarm off the Nile Delta to feed on the riv er's nutrients. Now they have lost interest in Egypt. Fish production, one expert tells me, is one-fifth what it was before the high dam. Moreover, the Nile no longer brings down sediments from central Africa. These sedi ments built the delta, Egypt's breadbasket, 728 as well as a shelf extending far into the sea. "Sediments no longer replenish the del ta," says geologist Farouk El-Baz, formerly Egypt's science adviser, as we walk along a disappearing beach at Ras el Bar. "There fore, the coastline retreats. In some places a kilometer has been lost." The shells of several Ras el Bar homes have nearly tumbled into the advancing sea. Nearby, at the mouth of the Nile, the flow is National Geographic,December 1982
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