The Aswan Dam, or more specifically since the 1960s, the Aswan High Dam, is the world's largest embankment dam, which was built across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt, between 1960 and 1970.Its significance largely eclipsed the previous Aswan Low Dam initially completed in 1902 downstream. Based on the success of the Low Dam, then at its maximum utilization, …

Aswan (/ æ s ˈ w ɑː n, ɑː s-/, also US: / ˈ æ s w ɑː n, ˈ ɑː s-, ˈ æ z-/; Arabic: أسوان, romanized: ʾAswān [ʔɑsˈwɑːn]; Coptic: Ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲛ, romanized: Souan pronounced ) is a city in the south of Egypt, and is the capital of the Aswan Governorate.. Aswan is a busy market and tourist centre located just north of the Aswan Dam on the east bank of the Nile at the ...

Constructie. Het ontwerp voor de lage dam kwam van de Britse civiel ingenieur William Willcocks.De Britten begonnen in 1899 aan de constructie van de lage dam, die werd afgewerkt in 1902.De dam was 1900 m lang en 54 m hoog. Het oorspronkelijke ontwerp werd al snel niet voldoende geacht en de dam werd twee keer verhoogd, van 1907-1912 en van 1929-1933.

The zero level of the main dam, the ground level, will be at a height of about 500 m (1,600 ft) above sea level, corresponding roughly to the level of the river bed of the Blue Nile.Counting from the ground level, the main gravity dam will be 145 m (476 ft) tall, 1,780 m (5,840 ft) long and composed of roller-compacted concrete. The crest of the dam will be at a height of 655 m …

History Ancient dams. Early dam building took place in Mesopotamia and the Middle East.Dams were used to control water levels, for Mesopotamia's weather affected the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.. The earliest known dam is the Jawa Dam in Jordan, 100 kilometres (62 mi) northeast of the capital Amman.This gravity dam featured an originally 9-metre-high (30 ft) and 1 m-wide …

Philae (/ ˈ f aɪ l iː /; Greek: Φιλαί or Φιλή and Πιλάχ, Arabic: فيلة Egyptian Arabic: , Egyptian: p3-jw-rķ' or 'pA-jw-rq; Coptic: ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕ, ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕϩ) is an island in the reservoir of the Aswan Low Dam, downstream of the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, Egypt.Philae was originally located near the expansive First Cataract of the Nile in Upper Egypt and was the ...

A reservoir (/ ˈ r ɛ z ər v w ɑːr /; from French réservoir [ʁezɛʁvwaʁ]) is most commonly an enlarged natural or artificial lake created using a dam to store fresh water.. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of water, interrupting a watercourse to form an embayment within it, through excavation, or building ...

The North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWPA or NAWAPA, also referred to as NAWAPTA from proposed governing body the North American Water and Power Treaty Authority) was a proposed continental water management scheme conceived in the 1950s by the US Army Corps of Engineers.The planners envisioned diverting water from some rivers in Alaska south …

The Suez Crisis, or the Second Arab–Israeli war, also called the Tripartite Aggression (Arabic: العدوان الثلاثي, romanized: Al-ʿUdwān aṯ-Ṯulāṯiyy) in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel, was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France.The aims were to regain control of the Suez Canal for the Western powers and to remove ...

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