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| Aswan Dam | Important Dam opened in Egypt in 1970 to control flooding and provide water all year round |
| Cairo | The capital of Egypt |
| Delta | An area of deposited silt at the mouth of a river |
| Irrigation | artificial watering of the the land |
| Gallabyia | A long Egyptian robe made from cotton |
| LEDC | Less Economically Developed Country |
| Rural-urban migration | the movement of people from the countryisde to the city |
| Saquia | Irrigation device with a wheel and buckets - as the wheel turnsm buckets empty water into an irrigation channel |
| Shaduf | Irrigation device - a long pole with a bucked on one end and a heavy weight on the other (weight allows the full bucket to be swung round to the irrigation channel) |
| Shanty Town | An area of very poor housing, lacking electricity, water supply and sewage system |
| Silt | fine soil left after a river floods |