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We gather from the passage that William Willcocks ----.

William Willcocks was born 150 years ago in a tent
beside a canal in northern India, where his father
worked for the colonial government. He learnt his
engineering in India before heading for Egypt in
1883. There he rose to become director-general of
reservoirs, and a legend on the banks of the Nile.
He built the first Aswan dam, then the largest in the
world, went on to revive the ancient irrigation
systems of Mesopotamia, and watered deserts from
south Africa to India. But he was deeply troubled by
the discovery that much of what his fellow water
engineers did in their colonial playgrounds was
worse than useless.