Aswan High Dam

In the middle of the dry Egyptian desert, there is the world's largest dam. It is known as Aswan High Dam, or Aradic Saad el Aali, capturing the powerful Nile River of Lake Nasser, the third largest reservoir in the world. Before the dam was built, the Nile river overflowed from the banks of the river once a year to deposit 4 million tons of nutritious silt at the bottom of the valley, making the dry land of Egypt rich and rich. However, after several years the river did not rise at all and drought and famine spread. In 1952 President Egyptian President Jamal Abdul Nasserle promised to control his country's annual flood through the huge new dam of the Nile. His plan went well.

Aswan High Dam catches floods during the rainy season and releases water at drought. The dam also produces a lot of electricity - over 10 billion kWh annually. This is enough to power one million color television for 20 years!

Unfortunately, the dam also has some negative side effects. 90,000 Egypt farmers had to relocate to build a dam. To make matters worse, during the annual flood, the rich mud that is usually fertile in dry desert areas is now trapped in the bottom of Lake Nasser! Farmers had to use about 1 million tons of artificial fertilizer to replace natural nutrients fertilized on the floodplain.

Since the dam was built in 1970, the fertility of Egyptian farmland has gradually declined. Today more than half of Egypt's soils are classified as moderate to poor.

Sufficient rocks were used for the construction of Aswan High Dam and 17 large pyramids were built in Giza, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

Aswan Dam in Aswan, Egypt, polluted the Nile and used the power of the river to deal with various social and economic causes. In Aswan, there are actually two dams in the Nile River, Aswan High Dam and Aswan Low Dam, which together prevent the flood of the Nile every year. Prior to the construction of Aswan Dam, the Nile River flooded every winter and there was the possibility of destroying crops planted in the fertile Nile Valley. For the purposes of this paper, the two Aswan dams will be treated as a single dam as their effects are in fact indivisible.

Aswan Dam, more specifically since the 1960's, the levee dam Aswan High Dam was built on the Nile of Aswan in Egypt between 1960 and 1970. Its importance greatly exceeds Aswan's low dam which was completed in the downstream in 1902. Since the Egyptian revolution in 1952, the construction of high dams has become a major goal of the government due to the success of low dams and maximum utilization thereafter; better management of floods, more reservoirs for irrigation, and hydropower Power generation dams are seen as the key to the planned industrialization of Egypt. As with the initial implementation, the high dams have had a major impact on Egypt's economy and culture.

As the modern Egyptians built a huge dam in Aswan, the Nile river no longer spilled the bank. Since 1970, the Aswan High Dam has prevented water from flooding on the banks of the Nile River every year. The Dam also provides reliable water flow to Egyptian farmers during the dry season. Egyptian people now can convert the predictable flow of the Nile to electricity. Aswan High Dam originally supplied electricity to over half villages along the Nile River. Since then, the population of Egypt continues to increase, but the Aswan High Dam still accounts for about 15% of the Egyptian electricity. Unlike oil, flowing water is renewable. In short, the river runs out. Ancient and modern civilization relies on a powerful river to prove that Egypt is really "the gile of the Nile".