An article on the The Globe and Mail website repeating the points made by Nigel Hetherington in September this year (see the posting on this blog here) describing damage done by the encroachment of farming land on Egyptian monuments, and the approaches being taken to it. "The government has tried to persuade farmers to use drip irrigation, a method that uses relatively little water. But it has had little success because farmers prefer the traditional method of flooding farmland with Nile water. Draining the area around archaeological sites is also an effective solution but is too expensive, and donations from the international community are not forthcoming archaeologists said. Hawass pinned his hopes for saving what remains of one of the world's greatest civilizations on stricter legislation to enforce a ban protecting land around ancient sites from farmers trying to take it without permission".
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