An examination of its impacts good & bad

95% of Egypt’s population live along the River Nile.

A narrow strip of cultivated land is used by farmers.

No more flooding only perennial irrigation

Traditional irrigation

World’s oldest machine

Nilometer measures height of flood

20th Century innovation

Sakia

Home to relatively few Nubians.

Site for dam on local granite for strong foundations & building material

Gravity flow downstream

Power station

Power for fertiliser industry to replace fertile silt left by previous flooding on fields downstream

Temple of Abu Simbel rescued from the rising lake waters but many other antiquities lost

Perennial Irrigation

Irrigation all year

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

Food & export crops