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River deltas were the cradles of early civilizations and are currently the habitats of 500 million people. But river deltas worldwide are sinking and being invaded by rising seas. The effects of sea level rise and floods are greatly exacerbated by subsidence and human modifications including reductions in supply of sediment and the extraction of water, oil and gas from deltaic sediments as well as damaging engineering works.
Egypt is the gift of the Nile.
—Herodotus, c. 450 BCE
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Wright, L.D., Syvitski, J.P.M., Nichols, C.R. (2019). Complex Intersections of Seas, Lands, Rivers and People. In: Wright, L., Nichols, C. (eds) Tomorrow's Coasts: Complex and Impermanent. Coastal Research Library, vol 27. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75453-6_4
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