Will a Nile Canal Project Dry Up Africa’s Largest Wetland? ...Sudan

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Will a Nile Canal Project Dry Up Africa’s Largest Wetland?
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By Fred Pearce Seen from space, the Sudd swamp is a giant green smudge where the White Nile, one of the great river’s two main branches, spreads out across flat arid land, forming myriad back channels that are often covered in floating vegetation. Africa’s largest freshwater wetland permanently occupies roughly 3,500 square miles in an otherwise dry region of South Sudan and floods up to 10 times more in the wet season. But now the Sudd is under threat of being turned to desert by the revival of a half-completed engineering megaproject that would divert the Nile River away from the wetland and shorten its route north to the Mediterranean Sea. Egypt, which sponsored the original ill-fated Jon

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