The Nile in Egypt

Detailed look at the various ways in which the Nile is crucial to Egypt's survival: agricultural cultivation, dependent since antiquity upon methods of irrigation such as Shadouf, Saquia and Archimedes Screw; more recently improved by modern, large-scale methods of water storage - dams - and distribution via barrages and irrigation canals. The film also shows the Nile being used for goods transport, from Egypt's main port at Alexandria, and for generating hydro-electric power.