1. For the first figure, see Ali al-Gritly, The Economic History of the Revolution, 1952–1966 (Cairo: Dar al-Ma‘araf bi-Misr, 1974, Ar.), p. 73 ff. For the second figure, see, H. E. Hurst, The Nile: A General Account of the River and the Utilization of its Waters (London: Constable, 1957), p. 296. H. E. Hurst, R. P. Black, and Y. M. Simaika, The Nile Basin, vol. X, The Major Niles Projects (Cairo: General Organization for Government Printing Offices, 1966), p. 97 gives the average discharge from 1870 to 1959 as 92.6 billion m3, with a standard deviation of 19.8 billion m3.
2. “The High Dam Project is Greater Than the Pyramids,” al-Ahram (Ar.), 7 October 1955, p. 8.
3. Hurst, The Nile, p. 38.
4. On the latter point, see Roger Owen, Cotton and the Egyptian Economy, 1820–1914 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969).
5. Hurst, The Nile, p. 46.