Upstream on the Blue Nile, which is the source of 60 per cent of Egypt's water ... the new dam will be much lower than that from Aswan's Lake Nasser, and should therefore lead to an overall ...

Egypt's Aswan High Dam and Lake Nasser: the building of the dam was ... saying its 145-metre (475-foot) GERD Blue Nile barrier -- set to be Africa's largest hydro-electric dam -- is vital to ...

The island of Philae, 10 kilometres upstream from Aswan on an artificial lake created by a dam. The Temple of Isis and another dedicated to Hathor might be Egypt’s most romantic ruins ...

Blue-and-white alabaster ornaments ... “Everything changed after the British came to Egypt,” he says. In 1898, the British began the construction of the Aswan Low Dam, one of the largest ...

ASWAN, Egypt — Sudan and Egypt are neighbors with deep ties and interwoven histories, and they share a common lifeline: the Nile River. So integral is the Nile to life in these countries that ...

Ethiopia, the second most populous nation in Africa, today uses similar arguments, saying its 145-metre GERD Blue ... saw the Aswan dam as a threat to their lives — in a different way. The lake behind ...