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2. Aswan Dam - Wikipedia

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   The Aswan Dam, or Aswan High Dam, is one of the world's largest embankment dams, which was built across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt, between 1960 and 1970.When it was completed, it was the tallest earthen dam in the world, surpassing the Chatuge Dam in the United States. [2]

3. Lake Nasser - Wikipedia

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   Aswan High Dam. The construction of the Aswan High Dam began in 1960 at the behest of Lake Nasser's namesake and the second president of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser. It was President Anwar Sadat who inaugurated the lake and dam in 1971. [8] Finished in 1970, the Aswan High Dam across the Nile was built to replace the insufficient Aswan Low Dam ...

4. Aswan Low Dam - Wikipedia

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   The Aswan Low Dam or Old Aswan Dam is a gravity masonry buttress dam on the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt. The dam was built by the British at the former first cataract of the Nile, and is located about 1000 km up-river and 690 km (direct distance) south-southeast of Cairo. When initially constructed between 1899 and 1902, nothing of its scale had ...

5. List of largest dams - Wikipedia

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   By general definition, a dam is a barrier that impounds water or underground streams, ... Aswan Dam [7] Egypt: 1970 44.3 111 169 2,100 TE/ER 15 W. A. C. Bennett Dam

6. International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia

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   Philae flooded by the Aswan Low Dam in 1906. In 1902, the Aswan Low Dam was completed on the Nile River by the British. This threatened to submerge many ancient landmarks, including the temple complex of Philae. The height of the dam was raised twice, from 1907 to 1912 and from 1929 to 1934, and the island of Philae was nearly

7. Water already dwindling, Egypt's farmers fear impact of dam - AOL

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   In the past, he and other villagers irrigated their farms through canals linked to the Nile River, Egypt’s lifeline since ancient times. In the winter of 1964, Makhluf Abu Kassem was born in ...