No single resource development project has aroused more controversy than the High Dam Project of Aswan in Egypt. In the sixties it was praised as the mainstay of the Egyptian economy and in the seventies and eighties vilified as an environmental catastrophe. Nearly thirthy years after its ...
No single resource development project has aroused more controversy than the high dam that stores the flow of the Nile River above the first cataract at Aswan. It is praised as the mainstay of the Egyptian economy and vilified as an environmental catastrophe. Twenty-one years after its ...
The dam was completed in 1971 and the huge reservoir behind it, named for President Nasser, finished filling in 1979. The project has always carried controversy with it. The construction displaced over 100,000 Nubian, whose civilization had called the banks of the Nile in southern Egypt and no...
No single resource development project has aroused more controversy than the high dam that stores the flow of the Nile River above the first cataract at Aswan. It is praised as the mainstay of the Egyptian economy and vilified as an environmental catastrophe. Twenty-one years after its ...
On the one hand, the High Aswan Dam is a source of renewable energy that produces virtually no pollutants or emissions, and allows a nation to prosper. This means that Egypt is not an economic burden to developing nations because the nation is self-sufficient. Egyptians can produce their own...
On the one hand, the High Aswan Dam is a source of renewable energy that produces virtually no pollutants or emissions, and allows a nation to prosper. This means that Egypt is not an economic burden to developing nations because the nation is self-sufficient. Egyptians can produce their own...
The article presents information on the controversy related to the Aswan High Dam, the largest barrier built across the Nile River in Egypt. The dam's turbines produced hydroelectric power to meet half of Egypt's electrical needs; and irrigating canals created a million acres ...
The article presents information on the controversy related to the Aswan High Dam, the largest barrier built across the Nile River in Egypt. The dam's turbines produced hydroelectric power to meet half of Egypt's electrical needs; and irrigating canals created a million acres of new farm land...
a realtime management model of the dam, management of water shortages and trade-offs between major uses, and coordinated operation of the dam with new upstream as well as downstream developments.The High Dam has been a source of controversy, particularly with regard to its environmental impacts....