Aswan High Dam

The climate of the Nile Valley was stable and predictable prior to the construction of the Aswan high dam. Although the effects of annual inundations were removed with the construction of the dam, the ensuing climatic changes ushered in a new set of phenomena that threaten the Nile Basin and its people, from Alexandria to Aswan. Our investigations (to be published) indicate that, because of overall increased irrigation, this threat now extends as far south as Khartoum. 

Most installations were comparatively small in size, with a few notable exceptions. At the Aswan High Dam, for instance, 40,000... 

In the last 150 years, world population has grown fast and our modern standards of living depend on the production of electricity, and production of food for at least two seasons a year. In an effort to meet these demands, engineers have built small as well as very large dams. In certain areas, very large man-made lakes have been dug in the earth, such as behind the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, the Ataturk Dam in Turkey, and new dams on the Yellow River in China. 

Fahim, H. M. (1981). Dams, people and development The Aswan High Dam case. New York Pergamon. 

Wahby, S,D., and Bishara, N.F. (1979) The effect of the river Nile on Mediterranean water, before and after the construction of the High Dam at Aswan. In River Inputs to Ocean Systems (Martin, J.M., Burton, J.D., and Eisma, D., eds.), pp. 311-318, U.N. Environ. Prog. Intergov. Oceanogr. Comm. Sci. Comm. Ocean. Res., Rome. 

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