Source: NASA Earth Observatory
The nearly always amazing NASA Earth Observatory chose this image of a dam in the desert on its site this morning as its Image of the Day. The accompanying brief article is well worth a read, for it encapsulates the problems of water supply and management in an extremely arid environment with a growing population. It also points to some of the problems of dams in the region and the conflicts over the use of the Nile, crucial for life in both Sudan and downstream Egypt.
