Lake Nasser

The lake Nasser (in Arabic: بحيرةالناصر, Buhayrat year-Nasir) is an artificial lake located at the border soudano - Egyptian. “Nasser” is the name of the Egyptian portion of this water level (that is to say 83% of its entire surface), the Sudanese side bearing the name of lake of Nubie . From a 500 km length, its width varies between 5 and 35 km for an entire surface of 6.216 km ², including 5.250 km ² in Egypt. It constitutes a reserve of 162 billion m ³ (that is to say 162 km ³) of water in full desert of High-Egypt. In fact, if one takes account of the foreseeable silting (31 km ³ envisaged in the 500 next years), of the volume of raw (41 km ³ /an) and of evaporation and the infiltrations, the volume of water available is not any more but of 74 km ³, distributed for 55,5 km ³ for Egypt and 18,5 km ³ for Sudan. Most of Egyptian water is assigned to the project of irrigation of the depression of Toshka.

Created at the conclusion of the construction of the stopping of Aswan, between 1958 and 1970, it is fed by water of only the the Nile. During its construction and to counter the rise of water, several Nubian archeological sites, whose Abou Simbel and Philae, was dismounted stone by stone and was moved in height. This building site was in fact the occasion of massive displacements of infrastructures and populations (primarily several hundreds of thousands of Nubians of Egypt): the Sudanese river port of Wadi Halfa for example completely was submerged and replaced by a new city at the edges of the new lake.

The lake holds its name of the president Gamal Abdel Nasser, project superintendent of this disputed work. Moreover, from its regulating effect on the risings of the river, it decreases the quantity of alluvia deposited downstream and is directly quoted like person in charge of the erosion of the delta of the Nile.

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