I love rivers. You cannot contain them—they will always win, eventually.
The Nile used to be considerably closer to the pyramids
Well, we currently are controlling rivers via climate change - making them vanish. We see this currently with the Rhine and the Danube, both their water levels are at a record low, leading to shutdown of nuclear powerplants cos they can’t be cooled anymore and massive economic damages since ships can’t transport as much stuff compared to when the water level is high.
Note that they said “eventually.” When humanity dies out, the river wins.
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I wonder if the bridge contributed to the change in river course. It slowed flow enough in the normal river channel that the faster flowing water went around and dug a deeper channel next door. The water slowed by the bridge dropped its sediment to build up a bank under the span.
Seems like a plausible story, no idea if it’s based in reality though.
This is why Wile E. Coyote is the real protagonist of that cartoon; we see ourselves in him.
