when you know there was a blue nile is very unpredictable tonight the level of water will be low tomorrow it will swallow houses and sometimes it floods this plantation before we have time to stop it or will the flooding allows for just one harvest per year and that also limits the types of crops that can be planted but once the river flow is under control more intensive agriculture can be practiced it's a different story for sudanese brick makers they depend on silt washed down from the ethiopian highlands to make bricks which are then baked in riverside kilns with the new dam in place there will be fewer silt deposits and less income for the brick makers. and there was only this silt comes to us from the estuary there from the ethiopian plateau. with the dam the still going on common in. the middle of a google one of. the hydroelectric project is set for completion in 2022 with the