The Aswan Dam on Egypt's Nile, for example, was highly controversial when it was built in the 1960's. Yet for all the environmental damage to its downstream river system, it's very difficult for you to find an Egyptian that is in favor of its removal. The dam has been an outstanding...
Egypt stores a great amount of Nile water behind the Aswan High Dam, but the high rate of evaporation in the desert is an incentive to transfer the storage upstream, where, according to Postel, it would evaporate one-third as fast. Although that would leave more water to be shared, Egypt...