lifeblood of egypt and vital for the irrigation of its farmland. but the river and its countless canals have become severely polluted and full of trash over time the plastic breaks down into ever smaller pieces. the micro particles enter the water supply ending up in crops and in fish and then in their human consumers. some air is a fisherman working on the nile. he knows firsthand about the problems pollution causes. me to have to deal with that when i'm older but i think that because then when i'm out on the water i see lots of plastic bottles and other containers like that all of this rubbish tears up my net and they kills the fish to. chad the abdullah is an activist who takes very practical steps to clean the river and its banks. he also speaks out against the scourge of trash and pollution that takes