9 pictures of High Aswan Dam & Nile with their great influence on Egypt

1. An examination of its impacts good & bad

2. 95% of Egypt’s population
live along the River Nile.
A narrow strip of cultivated
land is used by farmers.

3. No more flooding only perennial irrigation

4. The High Aswan Dam

7. Power station
Power for fertiliser industry to replace fertile silt left by previous
flooding on fields downstream

8. Temple of Abu Simbel rescued from the rising
lake waters but many other antiquities lost

9. Perennial Irrigation
Irrigation all year
3 or 4 crops a year
More land cultivated even
away from the floodplain
(New Valley)
Food & export crops