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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. Philae temple complex - Wikipedia

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   The Philae temple complex (/ ˈ f aɪ l iː /; Ancient Greek: Φιλαί or Φιλή and Πιλάχ, Arabic: فيلة Egyptian Arabic:, Egyptian: p3-jw-rķ' or 'pA-jw-rq; Coptic: ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕ, ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕϩ, [1] [2] Coptic pronunciation: [ˈpilɑk, ˈpilɑkh]) is an island-based temple complex in the reservoir of the Aswan Low Dam, downstream of the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, Egypt.

6. Fifty years on, the Nile dam that changed the face of Egypt - AOL

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   Yassin Saeed remembers when the Nile’s annual flood drenched his village in the years before the construction of the Aswan High Dam. Now, former flood lands are green fields year-round. Built in ...

7. Toshka Lakes - Wikipedia

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   The Aswan High Dam, constructed in Egypt in 1964–1968, created Lake Nasser. It was designed with a maximum water level of 183 metres (600 ft) above sea level . As a precaution against any unexpected rise in Lake Nasser's water level, a spillway and channel were built in 1978.

8. List of dams and reservoirs - Wikipedia

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   Gaborone Dam in Botswana Inga Dam in DR Congo Aswan Dam in Egypt Akosombo Dam in Ghana Katse Dam in Lesotho Bin el Ouidane Dam in Morocco Gariep Dam in South Africa ...

9. 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 ...