There are much easier and simpler ways to irrigate. Why go to the time and expense of building a pyramid pump to water some ground when shadufs are still being used in that part of the world?
There are what some think to be easier ways to pump or move water. Why not use that same tried and true easy way to pump water now? The shadufs still work great! Why then was the Aswan Dam on the Nile built? Why did they go to the time and effort to build the Aswan Dam when they could have used shadufs, rely of the yearly flood, or use a few canals to irrigate. The Aswan Dam was built as a keystone of (among other things) a huge irrigation project. It supplies the electricity to power water pumps that irrigate much of the Nile valley that is never flooded. The power of the dam is used to irrigate land above the flood plain. The water of the Pyramid Pump was used to (among other things) irrigate land above the flood plain.
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- There are much easier and simpler ways to irrigate. Why go to the time and expense of building a pyramid pump to water some ground when shadufs are still being used in that part of the world?
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