Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1920 — Plan to Irrigate Egypt [ARTICLE]

Plan to Irrigate Egypt

For many years projects have been |under consideration for obtaining such a complete control of the waters of the upper Nile as will enable Egypt to develop its agricultural resources to the utmost and to secure the country against the dangers of excessive floods, while permitting the Sudan also to develop to some extent its own vast resources. The works contemplated will expend over a generation and Involve the expenditure of tens of millions of dollars, affecting the entire future of irrigation throughout the Nile basin. The commission. It Is reported, will consist of three members: An irrigation engineer nominated by the government of India as president and a British, pyhslctet nominated by the University of* Cambridge, while to draw on the wide experience available In America on questions of Irrigation and water supply, and still further to strengthen the Independence of the commission, an irrigation engineer nominated by the government of the United States will constitute the third mamhor