Aswan, Egypt - Egypt on Wednesday feted its High Dam - a key factor in modernising the country, an engineering miracle, and symbol of a political triumph. A parade marking the annual holiday ...

Half a century since Egypt's ground-breaking Aswan dam was inaugurated with much fanfare, harnessing the Nile for hydropower and irrigation, the giant barrier is still criticised for its human and ...

The Israeli website Nziv stirred controversy by describing a hypothetical attack on the Aswan High Dam in Egypt. This prompted a strong and immediate response from Egyptian politicians ...

A large dam on the Nile River in southern Egypt completed in 1970 which provides ... Lake Nasser. The original Aswan Dam was built and completed by the British in 1902 about four miles downstream ...

He pauses and looks at me. “Everything changed after the British came to Egypt,” he says. In 1898, the British began the construction of the Aswan Low Dam, one of the largest such projects of ...

not accounting for the current storage level in the High Aswan Dam reservoir (b) inappropriately using a mass-balance approach that does not account for the Nile's hydrology or how water is managed in ...

In the eyes of the Egyptian government, the loss of the treasures, while lamentable, was necessary: The Aswan High Dam was needed to boost agriculture and provide electricity for Egypt’s ...

However, the environment has changed over Egypt's history, and the construction of the Aswan High Dam across the Nile between 1960 and 1970 altered the landscape substantially. Some areas of Egypt ...

ASWAN, Egypt — Sudan and Egypt are neighbors with ... particularly to advocate against diminishing water rights as a result of a massive dam Ethiopia is building further south.