A report by the committee stressed that the Aswan High Dam is ready to receive ... passing through Khartoum before reaching the Nasser Lake. Egypt took all necessary measures and completed maintenance ...

The billion-dollar Aswan High Dam, partly financed by Russian credits, is to be the greatest monument in Egypt’s history ... through six rock tunnels (see map) and activate the turbines of ...

The dam stores 160 billion cubic metres of water, and its reservoir stretches some 350km across southern Egypt and 150km into Sudan. The Aswan High Dam was not the first dam to be built across the ...

On Dec. 9, 1960, construction of the Aswan High Dam began in Egypt. It would be the first time flooding on the Nile would be controlled. The first blast, delivered by President Gamal Abdel Nasser ...

A large dam ... 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 original Aswan Dam ...