The Ten Plagues of Egypt are argued to have been the result of the eruption of Thera or Santorini. Does the evidence really support this?

It helped people to easily access the water from the River Nile. They built a system of canals ... the river then flooded onto the land surrounding it. When the flood water drained away again ...

construction was halted when the pharaoh discovered issues surrounding differences in height between the sea and land. He also feared that opening the Nile to the Red Sea would pollute the river ...