But its trapped waters are not sufficient today to sustain the leaping population of modern Egypt. One of the most ... down to take another look at the Aswan dam project. Nasser settled for ...
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 ...
MANIAL SULTAN, Egypt — 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 fi ...