Reservoir
Lake Nasser
Formed by the Aswan High Dam, it gave Egypt multi-year storage on the Nile for the first time — ending the annual flood that had defined Egyptian agriculture for millennia, along with the silt it delivered.
Key facts
- Capacity
- approximately 132,000 million m³
- Dam completed
- 1970
- Length
- approximately 550 km
- Annual evaporation loss
- a substantial fraction of storage, owing to surface area and climate
Relationships
- Located in: Egypt
Related intelligence
Sources
- World Wildlife Fund / McGill University — HydroSHEDS / HydroRIVERS / HydroLAKES / HydroBASINS. Open — attribution required · CC BY 4.0
- Global Water System Project — Global Reservoir and Dam Database. Open — attribution required · CC BY 4.0
- Peer-reviewed scientific literature — Open-access hydrology, water chemistry and water use research. Public but restricted · Publisher terms — public access, reuse not clearly granted