Important new irrigation work is about to be undertaken by _the Egyptian Government on the Blue Nile. The construction of a reservoir at Djebel Aulia will aid Egypt in cultivating almost any quantity of rice; will abolish the rotations concerning cotton; will supply the water necessary for irrigation by ditches, and will_improve the uncultivated areas.
Experts in the Egyptian irrigation service believe that the reservoir will prevent the inundation of a large area of land in southern Sudan, and save to the Egyptian Government large sums which it
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