It was the dream of Egypt's pan-Arab nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser, but the inauguration of the Aswan High Dam 50 years ago came at a big cost. Opened on the mighty Nile on January 15, 1971 ...

How do you move a 3,000-year-old temple? This documentary tells the extraordinary story of how Abu Simbel and other Egyptian monuments were cut into pieces and relocated to escape the rising waters of ...

CAIRO – EDITOR'S NOTE: In July 1956, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, marking Egypt's decisive break with its colonial past. Before that, the canal, built in 1869 by ...

A large dam on the Nile River in southern Egypt completed in 1970 which provides irrigation and electricity to most of Egypt and forms one of the world's largest man-made reservoirs, Lake Nasser. The ...

The mighty Nile, which brings the rains of equatorial Africa to the Mediterranean, has nurtured six millenniums of civilization in its valley and broad delta. But its trapped waters are not sufficient ...

After the closure of the Aswan high dam in 1965, the flow of nutrients from the Nile into Mediterranean coastal waters was reduced by more than 90 percent, and the once productive fishery collapsed.

Journal of Hydrometeorology, Vol. 22, No. 5 (May 2021), pp. 1099-1115 (17 pages) Transboundary river basins are experiencing extensive dam development that challenges future water management, ...

DURING the course of a recent investigation of the current regime in the Suez Canal, an unusual distribution of salinity was observed along the Canal in September 1966. Comparison with older data from ...

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1. Which continent includes large areas known as Queen Maud Land and Marie Byrd Land? 2. The Carpathian and Balkan Mountains can be found on which continent? 3. The Aswan High Dam provides electricity ...