Egypt built the Aswan High Dam to tame the Nile's floods, but scientists now say the project starved the delta of fertile sediments and accelerated coastal erosion

The Nile River shaped life in Egypt for thousands of years. Every year, due to rains in the distant Ethiopian highlands during the summer, there was a tremendous amount of water that flowed through the desert toward the north.

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