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 ...

The Aswan High Dam Reservoir is one of the world’s largest water reservoir and suffers from high water evaporation rates due to the region’s very hot and dry climate. Floating PV installations ...

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 ...

The Aswan governorate on Saturday 11/1/2025 marks the 65th anniversary of laying the foundation stone of the High Dam in January 1960. Aswan Governor Ismail Kamal thanked the builders of the dam, ...

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 ...

to the High Dam Power Station, which is affiliated with the Hydroelectric Power Plants Company in Aswan Governorate. The purpose of the visit was to inspect the progress of work and follow up on the ...

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 ...

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 ...