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The 19 pages that link to Aswan High Dam, each with the reason it gives.

• Suez CrisisRelated: After Western financing for the project was withdrawn, Nasser cited it in announcing canal nationalization.

• Nile DeltaRelated: It greatly reduced the Nile’s downstream delivery of floodwater and sediment to the delta.

• Gamal Abdel NasserRelated: Nasser made the dam a centerpiece of national development after foreign financing was withdrawn.

• NileBroader topic: It regulates floods, stores water in Lake Nasser, and generates hydroelectricity.

• Nile ValleyBroader topic: It curtailed the annual flood and changed farming and sediment transport downstream.

• ReservoirRelated: Its reservoir, Lake Nasser, transformed Nile flows, agriculture, and sediment delivery.

• NubiaRelated: Its reservoir prompted the international campaign to rescue threatened Nubian monuments.

• Nile floodCompared with: Its regulation largely ended the annual inundation downstream and altered the river’s sediment delivery.

• Nile basinBroader topic: It regulates downstream flow and stores water arriving from the wider basin.

• Agriculture in EgyptRelated: It regulates river flow and enables year-round irrigation, while limiting the silt reaching fields.

• Egyptian agricultureRelated: Its regulation of the river expanded year-round irrigation while reducing flood-borne sediment downstream.

• NasserismBroader topic: Its construction embodied Nasserism’s ambition for state-led modernization and national development.

• Hydroelectric damBroader topic: It demonstrates the benefits and cultural costs of controlling a river at national scale.

• Lake NasserRelated: Its closure formed the reservoir and controls water released downstream.

• Akosombo DamCompared with: Like Akosombo, it reshaped a major river system through a large reservoir.

• Aswan GovernorateBroader topic: The dam regulates Nile flows and created Lake Nasser within the governorate.

• Economy of EgyptRelated: It expanded irrigation and power generation while changing flood patterns and sediment flows.

• Abu SimbelRelated: Its reservoir created the threat that prompted Abu Simbel’s relocation.

• Nubian DesertRelated: Its reservoir reaches into the desert landscape south of Aswan.