The Artificial lake
6- All over Egypt, in every village, there are pits left after quarrying earth for brick-making called 'Birkas', and they are the prime source of malaria. So notorious are the birkas as nests of disease that several politicians have accorded a prominent place in their programmes to schemes for filling them up, but somehow, the 'birkas' remain. Of course, filling a hole is rather an interactable problem. To fill a hole with earth will for another hole, and to fill these birkas with sand from the desert will cost a lot.... The Artificial lake - as an answer to the problems of Bilharziasis Control and earth quarrying for brick-making in villages.













