Aswan High Dam

What are 3 POSITIVE impacts Lake Nasser has on the area?

- feeding fish - irrigation systems - washing/drinking

Salty Soil Bad??

- irrigation - farming - drinking

3 benefits of the Aswan High Dam

- provides electricity for the country of Egypt - farming could happen all year round - withstands earthquakes

2 disadvantages of the Aswan High Dam

- too much salt so monuments break down quicker - fertilizers are leaking into the ground and drinking is harmful

How do other 9 countries feel about the dam?

Don't like it... it caused flooding and the flood flowed into the other countries. it is only helping Egyptians.. there is less water and they have no control

When Lake Nasser was created, what did the people have to do?

Nubians had to move out (forced)

no nutrients in water... negative effect??

bad for fishing... fish die

how was lake Nasser created?

construction of the Aswan Dam

what is happening to the Nile Delta??

creeping backwards... making the Mediterranean Sea bigger

without the dam???

drought

importance of the Aswan High Dam

prevents flooding

What is Lake Nasser considered??

reservoir

why did the government want to build the Aswan High Dam?

so farming could take place all year round