GMAT Reading Comprehension (RC) | For millennia, the Nile River flooded nearly every year

For millennia, the Nile River flooded nearly every year as
a natural consequence of heavy summer rains on the
Ethiopian Plateau; in the last century, as the population in
the region exploded, the cycle of flooding interspersed
with periodic drought caused widespread suffering for the
local population. In the mid-1950s, the Egyptian
government concluded that a significant dam was
necessary to enable the country’s economic development
to be on a par with that of Western nations. The Aswan
Dam would
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