The Aswan Dam is an embankment dam situated across the Nile River in Aswan Egypt. Since the 1960s the name commonly refers to the High Dam. Construction of the High Dam became a key objective of the Egyptian Government following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 as the ability to control floods provide water for irrigation and generate hydroelectricity were seen as pivotal to Egypt’s industrialization.
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