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Each contiguous part of the Grand Canal only flows in one direction, it would be impossible for it to work otherwise. You do have a point though that this new
by MichaelZuo 4y ago
Each contiguous part of the Grand Canal only flows in one direction, it would be impossible for it to work otherwise.
You do have a point though that this new river in Egypt may be the 'largest' on some other metric.
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- Retric 4y agoThe issue isn’t direction but rather having multiple branches as a river only includes channel(s) going downstream from a single point. Without that definition a river’s length would be the length of every river connected to it. Thus the Mississippi and Ohio river are considered different rivers even though their waters mix and both flow downstream through the same channel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_River https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_River, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River
- meitham 4y agoAccording to this definition then Iraq’s man-made river (Saddam’s river) is longer at 565 km. the official role of the river was to collect irrigation water from Mesopotamia fertile land all the way to the Persian Gulf, though the real reason Saddam built it was to dry the Arab Marshes as it was difficult to contain the rebels in the marshes. https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%A8_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85?wprov=sfti1 https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%A8...
- Retric 4y agoI thought most of that 565km distance was an existing waterway. In English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draining_of_the_Mesopotamian_Marshes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draining_of_the_Mesopotamian_M...