Egypt will build further reinforced steel walls Aswan Dam

Aswan Dam on the Nile in Egypt, is a irrigation, power generation, flood control and other comprehensive benefits of large-scale water conservancy projects, is one of the world's seven most famous dams. Recently, the media reported that Egypt, in order to ensure the safety of the dam, the government will build a steel wall, in order to further reinforce the main body of the dam project. At the same time, this steel wall of the dam can also be effectively protected against explosive threats.

"It is Egypt's largest English-language newspaper" Egyptian Gazette ", No. 8 reported that an unnamed official said the Egyptian Ministry of Irrigation, Aswan dam reinforcement project will cost 40 million Egyptian pounds, or about $ 7 million U.S. dollars, is expected to be completed in late 2011. The official also said that the steel used for reinforcement of the dam wall will build turbines in the dam before the entire reinforcement project will not affect the normal operation of the dam. But for the steel wall is how to protect the dam, and the construction of the wall plate more specific purpose, the official did not give further explanation.

Aswan Dam, built in 1970, which lasted more than 10 years, costing about $ 1 billion, is a set of irrigation, navigation, power utilization project. Aswan Dam, a flood of the Nile changed adjustable artificial irrigation as irrigation, from Egypt to help end the dependence Nile flooding for cultivation of natural history. Meanwhile, the water level drop the enormous power towards Egypt has also become an important driving force of modern industrial civilization. "