The Aswan Dam
The Aswan Dam was an important change for Egypt.It is an enbankment dam. The Egyptian Government had this as a key objective in their eyes because the power to control floods which brought famine to Egypt would change their country forever and it also generates hydroelectricity. It is situated in Aswan, in Egypt. The dam was started to be built in 1960 and was opened in 1970. It is 111 metres tall and 3,830 metres long. It's Surface area is 5,250 square kilometres and it's normal elevation is 183 metres high. It's maximum water depth is 180 metres deep. It's reservoir length is 550 km whereas it's width is 35. The amount of MW it's creates per average each day is 2,100.