On Dec. 9, 1960, construction of the Aswan High Dam began in Egypt. It would be the first time flooding on the Nile would be controlled. The first blast, delivered by President Gamal Abdel Nasser ...

In 1970, they completed the Aswan High Dam, which stretches across the Nile 600 miles south of Cairo. The dam has effectively stopped the river's annual floods by trapping its waters in a ...

To support sustainable farmers, Nazeerah partners with family farmers who enhance the land’s biodiversity by farming cotton ...

The poster-child for this harm has long been the High Aswan dam in Egypt, which holds back the river Nile, creating a 500km-long reservoir. Getty Images Lake Nasser, the reservoir created by the ...

the Bratsk Dam in Siberia and the Aswan High Dam in Egypt. When the full impact of these giants came on stream in the 1970s, their ability to block water from going into the sea slowed the ongoing ...

Aswan Dam, across the river Nile in Egypt, is the world's largest embankment dam. A dam is a barrier that blocks water to create a human-made lake called a reservoir. Dams can be used to produce ...

Courtesy of Nazeerah Egypt’s agricultural industry relies on water from the Aswan High Dam, one of the world's largest embankment dams, built across the Nile River in 1970. In Nazeerah’s time ...