Year 10 Aswan Dam - Water World

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