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MAY 2017 | VOLUME 27, NUMBER 5
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SCIENCE
4 Increased Land Subsidence and Sea-Level
Rise Are Submerging Egypt’s Nile Delta
Coastal Margin
Jean-Daniel Stanley and Pablo L. Clemente
Cover: Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) under con-
struction on the Blue Nile in northern Ethiopia, near the Sudan
border. This will be the largest hydroelectric power plant in Africa.
The large reservoir to be placed behind the dam will be filled dur-
ing a 5–7-year period during which it is expected that the amount
of northward Nile flow to the Sudan and Egypt will be substan-
tially reduced. See related article, p. 4–11.
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