How important is the Aswan Dam to the economic development of Egypt?

Aswan Dam is located on the main stream of the Nile River in Egypt, near Aswan, about 800 kilometers south of the capital Cairo. It is a large-scale comprehensive water conservancy project with many benefits such as irrigation, power generation, flood control, shipping, tourism and aquatic products. Aswan Dam is a dam near Lake Nasser. The dam is a clay core rockfill dam with the maximum dam height of111m. When the highest water level is 183m, the total storage capacity of the reservoir is16.89m m3, the total installed capacity of the power station is 210,000,000 kW, and the designed annual power generation is/kloc-0,000,000 kW? H. The project started on1June 9, 960, the first unit was put into production on June 5, 967, and all units were installed and put into production on July 6, 970, and the project was completed in the same year. Aswan Dam has played a particularly important role in the economic development of Egypt.

Aswan Dam was started in 1960 and completed in 1970, ranking 1 1 among dams in the world. But its dam area exceeds its height, and its length spans 2 miles across the Nile. The Soviet Union designed the preliminary project and provided equipment for the power station. The completion of the dam has played a great role in the social development of Egypt. Lake Nasser, which is formed on the river section more than 500 kilometers to the south, provides a guarantee for Egypt to make rational use of water resources, supplies half of Egypt's electricity demand, and can prevent the Nile from flooding every year. ?

Dam is a comprehensive utilization project integrating flood control, irrigation, shipping and power generation. 1964 A rare flood occurred in the Nile. As the first phase of Aswan High Dam was completed at that time, it was able to store water for flood control and save the Egyptian people from a disaster. Since then, the Aswan High Dam has successfully solved the threat of the Nile flood to Egypt again and again. ?

Industrially, the dam has 12 175 MW generators with a total power of 2 100 MW? Power generation began in 1967, accounting for 15% of Egypt's total power generation in 198. At the peak, it accounted for half of Egypt's total power generation, and even exported electricity to neighboring countries.

In agriculture, dams have effectively reduced the losses caused by 1964 and 1973 floods and 1972-1973 and1984 droughts. Egypt was basically self-sufficient in food when almost all of Africa was in famine. The reservoir has also developed fisheries, and the income from fisheries is not high because it is too far from the consumer market.

Another special benefit is that Egypt got rid of its unfriendly neighbor Sudan and had the opportunity to control the Nile water, Egypt's lifeline. Because most Egyptians now live and work in the Nile Valley, Egypt is still planning to draw another waterway parallel to the Nile from Lake Nasser to expand its economic area.

Aswan Dam has great power generation capacity by blocking the river, which is very important for an economically underdeveloped country like Egypt. Unlike Saudi Arabia, Egypt can make a fortune by lying on oil endowed by nature. Egypt has no good conditions for industrialization. It mainly relies on the electricity generated by Aswan Dam to provide energy for industrial development, and the cost of this energy is relatively low. Aswan Dam has played a particularly important role in the economic development of Egypt.