A project proposed to reduce the erosion, known as the Nile Cascade, would involve the construction of 10 new barrier dams and would cost about a quarter of a billion US dollars.
這筆開銷是蓋亞斯文水壩的四分之一。殃及池魚水壩建築至今，埃及血絲蟲病患增加了近一千萬人。