There’s both good and bad. In addition to providing hydroelectric power, the Aswan High dam controls the damaging floods of the Nile valley but also removes the seasonal silting of the farmland that had sustained Egypt since ancient times. Without the periodic refertilization the farmland by flooding the valley now needs chemical fertilizers and managed irrigation imposing economic hardship on the farmers. Having another dam further upstream, where it was originally proposed by the British, would remove a portion of the function of Aswan High and allow the Sudanese government, which is unstable, a measure of influence on Egyptian policy.
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There’s both good and bad. In addition to providing hydroelectric power, the Aswan High dam controls the damaging floods of the Nile valley but also removes the seasonal silting of the farmland that had sustained Egypt since ancient times. Without the periodic refertilization the farmland by flooding the valley now needs chemical fertilizers and managed irrigation imposing economic hardship on the farmers. Having another dam further upstream, where it was originally proposed by the British, would remove a portion of the function of Aswan High and allow the Sudanese government, which is unstable, a measure of influence on Egyptian policy.