Aswan High Dam
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- Date
- 1960-1970 · confidence high
- Place
- Aswan, Egypt
- Credited to
- Government of Egypt with Soviet assistance
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
A 3.6 km rockfill dam across the Nile that generates nearly 2 GW, regulates floods and creates Lake Nasser. It transformed Egypt's agriculture and electricity supply.
Built from 1960 to 1970 and inaugurated in 1971; the older Aswan Low Dam (1902) preceded it.
What it led to
- Egypt's electrification
- regulation of the Nile and the end of annual floods
- relocation of the Nubian temples (Abu Simbel)