HIGH DAM of ASWAN:
The High Dam, is a rockfill dam across the Nile River, Located in Awan Egypt,(At South (BELOW) of the map included in this video) it was finished in 1970 (although inaugurated in January 1971). The dam, 364 feet (111 metres) high, with a crest length of 12,562 feet (3,830 metres) and a volume of 57,940,000 cubic yards (44,300,000 cubic metres), This Dam origined the Lake Nasser,(watch my Video of Lake Nasser) which has approximately a capacity of 5.97 trillion cubic feet (169 billion cubic metres). Of the Nile’s total annual discharge, some 2.6 trillion cubic feet (74 billion cubic metres) of water have been allocated by treaty between Egypt and Sudan,
The USA and U.K. had earlier tried to fund part of the project but it did not materialise. The USA withdrew the funding, followed by U.K. and the World Bank.Nonetheless The Soviet Union finally Was Who came to the rescue of Egypt by providing the required funds for the project in 1958, and finally the Construction of the High Dam began in 1960.
Besides The Dam was Placed a monument Commemorative of the Agreement Between Egypt & USSR For The Construction of This Dam,(Also shown in this video)
Is Important to Remind that High Dam Replaced The Aswan Low Dam or Old Aswan Dam also located on the Nile River in Aswan,(at north,look in The Map Shown) This dam was built at the former first cataract of the Nile, When initially was constructed (between 1899 and 1902), nothing of its scale had ever been attempted; on completion, it was the largest masonry dam in the world. The dam was designed to provide storage of annual floodwater and augment dry season flows to support greater irrigation development and population growth in the lower Nile. The dam, originally limited in height by conservation concerns, worked as designed, but provided inadequate storage capacity for planned development and was raised twice, between 1907–1912 and again 1929–1933. These heightenings didn't reach irrigation demands and in 1946 it was almost topped in an effort to maximize pool elevation.
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