WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On July 21, 1970, engineers completed the Aswan Dam in southern Egypt. The Aswan Dam was an enormous project, lasting more than 10 years and costing more than a billion dollars. The Aswan Dam controls the flow of the Nile River. The dam protects people living near the banks of the Nile from both floods and drought.

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: -Lake Nasser, also called Lake Nubia, reservoir on the Nile River, in Upper Egypt and northern Sudan. It was created by the impounding of the Nile’s waters by the Aswan High Dam, which was built in the 1960s and dedicated in 1971.