The Comparing and Contrasting of Snails of the The Nile River is a river that winds through Africa into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile River is considered to be the river of life for both people and wildlife. People who live along the river have the highest rate of bladder cancer. The Schistosoma Haematobium or blood fluke, which is carried by a snail called the Bulinus Truncatus, infects many people who live along the river. There is a parasitic worm which burrows into blood vessels of the human bladder. The Aswan High dam was built in the mid 1950s by the Egyptian government. It was built to conserve water and provide hydroelectric power.
The purpose was to improve the quality of life for people living along the Nile. When the construction started people didnt realize that making better use of the river water would endanger human health. This is what the ecosystem was like below the dam. A network of canals was built. The canals acted like slow moving streams which is the perfect environment for the bulinus snail. The slow moving streams mean more plant life there.
The snails are what carry the blood fluke which gets people infected when they go in or drink the water. As a result 80 percent of the people were infected and now have the blood fluke. This is what the ecosystem was like above the dam. The hippopotami were once abundant in the waters. They ate the vegetation where the snails live. By eating the plants the hippos kept the population of snails under control.
The Term Paper on Ancient Egypt Egyptians River People
Ancient Egypt Starting about 8, 000 BC, all of Northern Africa became a drier, more desert-like place. Back then, man lived in nomadic groups of hunters and gatherer. The climate forced man to migrate to more hospitable lands, some migrated to Nile River Valley which is a vast land surrounding the Nile River. There in this land abundant with life, there were plenty of food and water for these ...
After the construction of the dam the rising waters forced the hippos out. As a result this means there are more snails and the infection increasing. These are the similarities between above and below the dam. A similarity is that the infection increased in humans. A second similarity is that there was an increase in the amount of snails. A third similarity is the increase in vegetation which means an increase in food for the snails.
The last similarity is that the snails carry the blood fluke. These are the differences between above and below the dam. One difference is the water. As the water got higher more plants grew and snails came because the hippos left. A second difference is the canals. The canals slow the water and more plants can grow. The question remains as to whether the dam improved the life of the people along the Nile River..
