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SWAN Corner: Wet Weather Measurement Means More Than Scratching The Surface
By Jay Boyd
A Brief History Of Flow Measurement
History reveals that measuring water levels goes back many thousands of years to ancient Egypt. The Nile River was the source of life for the Egyptians, vital for sustaining life in Egypt. It was the annual flooding of the Nile that brought water to the erstwhile parched landscape for crop irrigation.
1 Flooding would vary from year to year, and hence the Egyptians recognized that they could predict the harvest bounty based on Nile River levels. They developed methods and structures to measure river levels with their predictor called “Nilometers”