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The Aswan High Dam is completed

1970 CE · Egypt, Africa · Technology

The Aswan High Dam is completed
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The Aswan High Dam, often called simply Aswan Dam was built between 1960 and 1970 across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt. One of the world's largest embankment dams, it was developed by the Egyptian government with the help of the Soviet Union to control flooding, increase water storage for irrigation, and generate hydroelectricity.

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