Challenges in modernizing the subsurface drainage systems in Egypt

After completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1970, the Egyptian government undertook an ambitious programme to install drainage on all of Egypt’s agricultural lands (approx. 2.7 Mha). In the decades that followed, subsurface drainage was implemented on 2.5 Mha, and drainage practices evolved from manua...

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Main Authors: Henk Ritzema, Safwat Abdel-Dayem, Hussein El-Atfy, Magdy Rashad Nasralla, Hanny Saad Shaheen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-10-01
Series:Agricultural Water Management
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378377423003499