It was the dream of Egypt's pan-Arab nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser, but the inauguration of the Aswan High Dam 50 years ago came at a big cost. Opened on the mighty Nile on January 15 ...

The Aswan High Dam is 111 metres high and holds back the Lake Nasser reservoir, one of the largest man-made lakes in the world by volume In the mid-1950s, the Egyptian authorities decided to build a ...

But the 111-metre-high and 3.6-kilometre-wide Aswan High Dam, dwarfing the far smaller Aswan Low Dam built under British rule in 1902, crucially gave Cairo power to regulate the flow.

Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Mohamed Abdel-Aty, led a meeting of the Permanent Regulatory Committee of the Nile Flow and the ministrys executive bodies on Tuesday to discuss ...

Ilham Shary had a sense of awe as he stood atop a towering memorial overlooking the Aswan High Dam. Before him meandered the Nile, the world's longest river, harnessed into a canal. Behind was ...

The importance of Egypt's first nuclear power plant is comparable to that of the Aswan High Dam, Russia’s Ambassador to Egypt Georgy Borisenko said this week. Built across the Nile&nbsp ...

Electricity Minister inspects High Dam Station, launches new transformer Saturday، 14 June 2025 - 07:55 PM. Text Size: A A A. Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mahmoud Esmat on Saturday ...

Egypt's population has now reached 85 million — 30 million more than when this program was made, and 2.5 times greater than when the Aswan High Dam was first completed.

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 may ...

An underwater archaeological mission in the Nile River near Aswan, Egypt, recovered a handful of long-lost artifacts. When ...