The Aswan High Dam was not the first dam to be built across ... the Aswan Botanical Island (Al-Nabatat Island), which is a small, oval-shaped island in the Nile that is less than one kilometre ...

The original Aswan Dam was built and completed by the British in 1902 about four miles downstream from where the Aswan High Dam is located today.

“This is not a small disadvantage ... Youssef Fakhouri has collected testimonies from the men who built the Aswan High Dam as a way of writing its oral history What was on the minds of the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Small projects—weirs and wells and waterworks ... So would the World Bank today lend money for an Aswan dam if it did not already exist? The bank has been involved in few of the 200 or so ...

The Aswan Dam in Egypt demonstrates the negative ... we've seen happen over the course of time is that a lot of those small dams that were originally built for a specific purpose have been ...

Back then, electricity generation was the preserve of small companies that generally sold power at ... One of the most prominent was the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, opened in 1970 by President Gamal ...