36. =Complete project for water storage and flood protection for Egypt.=--The complete project for water storage and flood protection for Egypt as proposed by me, contemplates the following works:-- Raising the Assuân reservoir (2 years) £ 500,000 Wady Rayan reservoir (4 years) „ 2,600,000 Training the Rosetta branch „ 900,000 ----------- Total £ 4,000,000 =========== To these have to be added the approximate estimates of the proposed works on the Upper Nile:-- Regulator for Lake Albert (4 years) £ 800,000 Dredging and training works in the Albert Nile and the Zeraf river (12 years) £ 1,200,000 ----------- Total £ 2,000,000 =========== Grand total of works on the Upper and Lower Nile £ 6,000,000 =========== The total expenditure amounts to £6,000,000 spread over 12 years. The great advantage of undertaking all those works together may be thus summarized. The increased supply from the Assuân reservoir will be felt in Egypt after a period of two years. Five years later the waters of the Wady Rayan will be added to those of the Assuân reservoir, and it will be possible to increase the cotton crop of Egypt from 6 million to 10 million cwt. It will be possible to allow the Sudan to thoroughly develop its agricultural resources, and with the aid of the 25,000 horse power as a minimum which the 6th cataract near Khartoum can supply, to utilise for its own consumption the waters which can be stored at that cataract; and, in addition to those, the available supplies from Lake Tsana provided that that lake is furnished with an outlet tunnel. While all this life and activity will be developing themselves in Egypt and the Sudan, the effects of the regulator of Lake Albert and the training of the Albert Nile in the Sudd regions will be gradually asserting themselves; and, if the works are being steadily and perseveringly carried out, it is well within the range of possibility that before 10 or 12 years will have passed, the additional supplies from the upper waters of the White Nile will have become so ample, that it will be possible to dispense with the Wady Rayan as a reservoir. When this will have happened, the Wady Rayan with its canal will become the true flood escape of Egypt, like the ancient Lake Mœris, and will, with the Rosetta branch, afford complete protection to Egypt against the dangers of a high flood. Egypt, in the fullest meaning of the term, will be enjoying perennial irrigation and flood protection.