Excerpt from Egyptian Irrigation, Vol. 1 Later on, as director-general Of Reservoirs, he conducted the studies which led to the decision to make a reservoir above the First Cataract and he drew up the designs and estimates of the Aswan Dam and the Assiut Barrage - projects which may well be described also Of the first magnitude. His next task was that of ascertaining the rental value of all land in Egypt, with the object Of obtaining figures on which a re-assessment Of the Land Tax could be based - a mission that could ...
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Excerpt from Egyptian Irrigation, Vol. 1 Later on, as director-general Of Reservoirs, he conducted the studies which led to the decision to make a reservoir above the First Cataract and he drew up the designs and estimates of the Aswan Dam and the Assiut Barrage - projects which may well be described also Of the first magnitude. His next task was that of ascertaining the rental value of all land in Egypt, with the object Of obtaining figures on which a re-assessment Of the Land Tax could be based - a mission that could not fail to teach him much about the country, its strong and weak points. This task accomplished, he then became Manager of the Cairo Waterworks and, while holding that appointment, prepared a drainage project for Cairo on behalf Of the Water works Company. After that, he was appointed Managing Director oi the Daira Sania Company by Sir Ernest Cassel, and effected the sale Of land and sugar factories to a total amount of I Afterwards he made a journey up the Nile to the equator, and wrote a paper containing his observations and proposals as the outcome Of his expedition. Lastly, from 1908 to 1911, he acted as Adviser to the Turkish Government for Mesopo tamia, and prepared projects for irrigating acres and controlling the Euphrates and Tigris. Such an environment of work, acting on natural ability to assimilate knowledge and to profit by experience, has produced in Sir William Willcocks an expert Of exceptional authority on the subject of Egyptian Irrigation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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