Aswan Dam Documentary Part 1

Construction of the Aswan High Dam

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Egypt
• Aswan
• Dam
• High
• Low

[thekingofkings1978]

great great video

[tomorello6]

Thanx man.

[spreadthetruth95]

This dam should be destroyed, if people cant get used to a bit of flooding, then say goodbye to the green 'healthy' land in 20 years

[Brucev7]

It has hastened the flow of peasants from the countryside to the towns, where their sprawling shanty towns compete with valuable agricultural land. The sardine industry, cotton industry and agriculture of the Nile valley have all been damaged by the damming of the water, and there have been no great advantages to offset these losses.

[Brucev7]

The loss of a nutrient supply from the river has killed the sardine industry in the South East Mediterranean Sea. The stagnant waters in the Nile Delta area at the entrance to the Sea have encouraged a plague of disease-bearing snails called "bilharzia" here and in the irrigation canals. The dam has halted the yearly supply of silt that farmers relied upon to fertilise their crops and brick-builders used to make their bricks.

[Brucev7]

The flooding of the Nile used to bring millions of tonnes of silt on to the arable land along the banks of the Nile and into the Nile Delta area where the river discharged in to the Mediterranean Sea. Today most if this is trapped in the dam at Aswan, while the Mediterranean which used to be kept at bay by the full force of the river, and the fresh silt deposits every year, is eating up the coastline around the delta.

[Imhotep397]

For all of the information that's dispensed here there's no mention of the fact that the creation of the dam also destroyed historical monuments, temples and countless artifacts critical to documenting the history of the world in Nubia.

[supremelove83]

@metalhead97ful shut up bitch

[supremelove83]

@metalhead97ful shut up betch

[metalhead97ful]

Fuck.