Aswan High Dam Images

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Aswan High Dam

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The Egyptian countryside benefited from the Aswan High Dam through improved irrigation as well as electrification, as shown here in Al Bayadiyah, south of Luxor. (Source)

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The catch of sardines in the Mediterranean off the Egyptian coast declined after the Aswan Dam was completed, but the exact reasons for the decline are still disputed. (Source)

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Skin vesicles: a symptom of schistosomiasis. A more common symptom is blood in the urine. (Source)

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Lake Nasser behind the Aswan dam displaced more than 100,000 people and traps significant amounts of sediment. (Source)

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The statue of Ramses the Great at the Great Temple of Abu Simbel is reassembled after having been moved in 1967 to save it from being flooded. (Source)

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View of New Wadi Halfa, a settlement created on the shore of Lake Nasser to house part of the resettled population from the Old Wadi Halfa town (Source)

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A picture of the old Wadi Halfa town that was flooded by Lake Nasser (Source)

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Power plant of the Aswan High Dam, with the dam itself in the background (Source)

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Power pylons at the power plant of the Aswan High Dam (Source)

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Main irrigation systems (schematically) (Source)

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Water balances (Source)

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Green irrigated land along the Nile amidst the desert (Source)

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A central pylon of the monument to Arab-Soviet Friendship. The memorial commemorates the completion of the Aswan High Dam. The coat of arms of the Soviet Union is on the left and the coat of arms of Egypt is on the right. (Source)

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A view from the vantage point in the middle of High Dam towards the monument of Arab-Soviet Friendship (Lotus Flower) by architects Piotr Pavlov, Juri Omeltchenko and sculptor Nikolay Vechkanov (Source)

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Gamal Abdel Nasser observing the construction of the dam, 1963 (Source)

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Egyptian President Nasser and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev at the ceremony to divert the Nile during the construction of the Aswan High Dam on 14 May 1964. At this occasion Khrushchev called it "the eighth wonder of the world". (Source)

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Aswan High Dam, Aswan, Egypt (Source)