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 ...

not accounting for the current storage level in the High Aswan Dam reservoir (b) inappropriately using a mass-balance approach that does not account for the Nile's hydrology or how water is managed in ...

Egypt plans to reissue a tender for the contract to build a pumped-hydropower storage plant in Mount Ataka, according to a ...

The Aswan governorate on Saturday 11/1/2025 marks the 65th anniversary of laying the foundation stone of the High Dam in January 1960. Aswan Governor Ismail Kamal thanked the builders of the dam, ...

The Aswan High Dam Reservoir is one of the world’s largest water reservoir and suffers from high water evaporation rates due to the region’s very hot and dry climate. Floating PV installations ...

For when Egypt built the High Dam, it was saving water that was wasted ... meters around which 11.5 billion cubic meters reaches Aswan. It is a seasonal flowing river and is strong in its summer ...

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After passing through Egypt’s own enormous dam at Aswan — only half as powerful ... (Yonas Tadesse for The Washington Post) The stakes are high: All of eastern Ethiopia relies on Moges ...

The Minister of Tourism and Antiquities has announced that the country will introduce free visas for travellers. However, ...