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28. The floods made the land fertile...

Mon Jan 25, 2016, 12:55 PM

Jan 2016

Agriculture in the delta has traditionally benefited from the water and silt deposited by the flood (remember that the silt comes from eroding basalt lava in the Ethiopian highlands). This silt made the Nile delta one of the richest agricultural areas in the world and the basis of one of the most ancient human civilizations. Irrigation and more intensive farming, combined with inadequate drainage, has created swamps. The rise in water tables has led to accumulation of harmful salts, fertilizers, and pesticides in the upper layers of the soil. Farmers have been forced to use about a million tons of artificial fertilizer as a substitute for the nutrients that no longer fill the flood plain.

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I'm sorry for the people on the Jersey Shore, BUT... [View all] Atman Jan 2016 OP

Get your point but.. busterbrown Jan 2016 #1

Rich people who can afford to build thick walls on high foundations, who like a sea view. MADem Jan 2016 #2

I was just thinking the same. High-end RV's today are a palace for those that can afford them. n/t RKP5637 Jan 2016 #6

^^^ Absolutely. Atman Jan 2016 #7

What I see happening are some newer homes are being built way up on enormous cement piers. RKP5637 Jan 2016 #10

If the people who want RVs are also home owners and voters in the community, why not? MADem Jan 2016 #16

I've had to move a number of times with my job. Even if companies help out, you really don't break RKP5637 Jan 2016 #20

Even those new homes on cement piers will eventually become surrounded by water. Fla Dem Jan 2016 #32

Just wondering ... with global warming, I wonder just how far the oceans will come inland without RKP5637 Jan 2016 #33

"Army Corp of engineers" OxQQme Jan 2016 #42

They are members of those communities--they need to "get correct" and "get political" and change MADem Jan 2016 #11

You think? Dorian Gray Jan 2016 #43

There's a reason rich people build their houses on hills... Wounded Bear Jan 2016 #18

hey I lived in an RV at the shore, but hollysmom Jan 2016 #34

That's a real problem in some coastal areas. With ever increasing insurance I see RKP5637 Jan 2016 #4

Those people rent them in high season at thousands per week (if they're smart). MADem Jan 2016 #12

Good point! I have a friend that owns a second home in a beach resort. I was stunned when I saw RKP5637 Jan 2016 #15

I have a friend who does this. He has two houses--one he lives in, one he rents. MADem Jan 2016 #19

That's an excellent plan IMO!!! n/t RKP5637 Jan 2016 #21

How about what was done in other flood zones? Atman Jan 2016 #5

Why ask this of them only WhaTHellsgoingonhere Jan 2016 #9

Flood-prone areas are often bought-ought by the government. Atman Jan 2016 #13

Same for those that keep rebuilding on mudslide prone areas up in the hills. Some RKP5637 Jan 2016 #17

What?! That's like saying there is no truth in stereotypes WhaTHellsgoingonhere Jan 2016 #40

You've touched on the reason dystopian events kill so much of the population lunatica Jan 2016 #3

bigger seawalls are not an answer lapfog_1 Jan 2016 #8

Seawalls CAUSE problems, rarely help them. Atman Jan 2016 #14

with sea rise this will be question for not just the Jersey Shore nadinbrzezinski Jan 2016 #22

I'm not that sorry... TreasonousBastard Jan 2016 #23

And then there are many here at the Jersey shore whose homes were demolished... Human101948 Jan 2016 #27

People have wanted to live near the water since the dawn of civilization. iandhr Jan 2016 #24

The floods made the land fertile... Human101948 Jan 2016 #28

I knew that. iandhr Jan 2016 #30

No one on the Jersey Shore is farming. Atman Jan 2016 #35

Looking at Africa after dark from high above, it seems most people still live on the Nile, or nearby mahina Jan 2016 #31

really important, illustrative conversation that will become much more common zazen Jan 2016 #25

Maybe they should be forced moved out of those flooding areas. According to Gov. Christie rladdi Jan 2016 #26

If the house gets sold to anyone else as a residence, then a new person hedgehog Jan 2016 #29

That's the only rational way to do it... hunter Jan 2016 #45

I feel the same way JustAnotherGen Jan 2016 #36

+1000 smirkymonkey Jan 2016 #48

Those people suck! TBF Jan 2016 #37

At least you completely missed the point! Atman Jan 2016 #38

Yup - I'm sure I did. TBF Jan 2016 #41

you cannot buy sweetapogee Jan 2016 #39

My grandmother's house was on 2nd Ave in Belmar - just down from The White House. aikoaiko Jan 2016 #44

awsome sweetapogee Jan 2016 #46

My grandparents were retirees from Jersey City in the 1960s and moved to Belmar aikoaiko Jan 2016 #47

Christmas in July! sweetapogee Jan 2016 #49