Aswan City

Aswan High Dam

The Aswan High Dam reins in the Nile River in southeast Egypt.Vast quantities of water back up in Lake Nasser south of the dam, which began operating in 1968 to provide Egypt with year-round water for irrigation. The dam's hydroelectric plant supplies the country with abundant low-cost electricity. Irrigation water from the dam also enabled Egypt to double agricultural production but created an increased soil salinity in the process.


	Nile River at Aswan The waters of the mighty Nile flow past the high banks at Aswan in Upper Egypt. The Aswan High Dam, completed in 1970, altered the course of the river and enabled Egypt to control the perpetual flooding that had plagued it for centuries. The large dam project increased the country's amount of arable land and provided much-needed additional electricity. Controversy ensued, however, when it became known that the project would submerge valuable antiquities. The most famous of these monuments, the temples of Abu Simbel, were painstakingly moved to higher ground and thereby saved from destruction.

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