Talk:Ismaïlia Canal

Where is the canal situated?

In this article it says: "Sweet Water Canal [...] is a Canal in Egypt built to facilitate construction of the Suez Canal by providing fresh water from Lake Timsah to Suez and Port Said."

Looking at maps it appears that Lake Timsah is part of the Suez Canal, or the Suez Canal goes through Lake Timsah to put it otherwise. The Suez Canal connects Suez and Port Said, and the Sweet Water Canal provides water to Suez and Port Said. But where is the Sweet Water Canal situated? Is it the name of a part of the Suez Canal?

To make things even more confusing, when reading the article Tall al Kabir one can conclude that Tall al Kabir is situated along the Sweet Water Canal (Ismailia Canal). Looking at maps, there is a canal at Tall al Kabir and it connects the city Ismailia with the city El-Abaseya, approximately 50 kilometres west of Ismailia. However, there's no way this canal could provide water from Lake Timsah to Suez and Port Said - it's simply the wrong direction.

I have spent a while trying to find information on this, but with no success. So my questions are: 1) Where is the Sweet Water Canal situated? 2) If the canal from Ismailia to El-Abaseya (via Tall al Kabir) is not the Sweet Water Canal, what is then the name of that canal? Alex Svensson (talk) 01:59, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Source for Xiaphias

@Xiaphias: On your user page, you wrote you value good referencing but I'm having trouble understanding a large chunk of text you copied from somewhere, added to the article and referenced simply "C.A. Pierce".Level C (talk) 03:57, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

As mentioned in the edit description, that text was from the "Fresh Water Canal" article, which was a duplicate Wikipedia article about the same canal. I just merged them into a single article. Xiaphias (talk) 05:36, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Encyclopedia Britannica states the following:

"An initial project was the cutting of a small canal (the Al-Ismāʾīliyyah) from the delta along the Wadi Tumelat, with a southern branch (now called the Al-Suways al-Ḥulwah Canal; the two canals combined were formerly called the Sweet Water Canal) to Suez and a northern one (Al-ʿAbbāsiyyah Canal) to Port Said. This supplied drinking water in an otherwise arid area and was completed in 1863."

And a map from 1951 shows the following: http://www.suezcanalzone.com/czmap.html

"It was formerly called Sweet Water Canal" See Britannica article on Ismailia governorate: https://www.britannica.com/place/Al-Ismailiyyah Level C (talk) 01:03, 20 November 2016 (UTC)