The Aswan Dam was only able to deliver the promised drought protection after it was rebuilt. This was made possible by ...

The poster-child for this harm has long been the High Aswan dam in Egypt, which holds back the river Nile, creating a 500km-long reservoir. Getty Images Lake Nasser, the reservoir created by the ...

The original Aswan Dam was built and completed by the British in 1902 about four miles downstream from where the Aswan High Dam is located today.

An underwater archaeological mission in the Nile River near Aswan, Egypt, recovered a handful of long-lost artifacts. When ...

No. The reservoir behind the dam will fill naturally ... Egypt can compensate for a loss of water by releasing more from the High Aswan Dam, but the concern comes once the Gerd is fully operational.

The dam is already built, the reservoir being filled ... and that water reserves at the Aswan Dam could prevent catastrophes brought on by sudden droughts. LEFT: A farmer shows the piping ...

Aswan Dam, across the river Nile in Egypt, is the world's largest embankment dam. A dam is a barrier that blocks water to create a human-made lake called a reservoir. Dams can be used to produce ...