OCEANS AND COUNTRIES
INDIAN TRANSPORTATION COMMUNICATION NATIONAL PARKS AND SANCTUARIES
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Egypt
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Detailed explanation-1: -Aswan Dam-Location The Aswan Dam is built on the River Nile, just south of the city of Aswan in Egypt. There are actually two dams at Aswan. The Aswan Low Dam that was completed in 1902 and the Aswan High Dam that was completed in 1970.
Detailed explanation-2: -In collaboration with various engineers from Egypt, the Institute Hydroproject of Russia designed the Aswan High rock-fill dam. Out of the 34, 000 people involved during the construction process, 25, 000 were Egyptian engineers.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the middle of the arid Egyptian desert lies one of the largest embankment dams in the world. It is called the Aswan High Dam, or Saad el Aali in Arabic, and it captures the mighty Nile River in the world’s third largest reservoir, Lake Nasser.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sadd el-Kafara ("Dam of the Infidels") was a masonry embankment dam on Wadi al-Garawi 10 km southeast of Helwan in Helwan Governorate, Egypt. The dam was built in the first half of the third millennium BC by the ancient Egyptians for flood control and is the oldest dam of such size in the world.