High Aswan Dam

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The paper discusses the High Aswan Dam, an engineering marvel that controls the Nile River and keeps broad areas of the Nile Delta from flooding each spring. The paper then explores the costs of this dam
in human terms and in maintenance levels. The paper concludes that Egypt has paid a high price for the benefits the dam has provided them.

From the Paper:

"The High Aswan Dam is actually the second dam at Aswan. The first, constructed in 1899 by the British when Egypt was a British territory, had to be raised twice, in 1907 and 1933. The Nile River is very unpredictable, and it topped the original Aswan Dam several times during its history. The last time it nearly flooded was in 1946, and officials began to talk of raising it again. However, after study, instead of raising the dam a third time, engineers decided to build a much higher dam about four miles upriver from the original dam, and about 400 miles south of Cairo. While they had found an answer to the flooding problems, Egypt could not afford to build the dam all on her own, so Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser sought help from other countries."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Editors. 2000. The Aswan Dam. Denver, CO: University of Colorado at Denver. Available Online at: http://carbon.cudenver.edu/stc-link/aswan1/index.html Accessed 7 May 2007.
• Osman, Hassan. Hydro Development in Egypt- Lessons from High Aswan Dam. Dams.org. Available Online at: http://www.dams.org/kbase/submissions/showsub.php?rec=opt041 Accessed 7 May 2007.
• Swain, Ashok. Managing Water Conflict: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. London: Routledge, 2004.
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