Damn that's a lot of Dams
Dams have been built in hopes it would help supple more water and electricity to Africa. Possibly the most well know along the Nile would be the Aswan High Dam spanning over 1200 feet in length and 350 feet in height. However it seems as if the dams has done more bad than good on Egypt, "In the middle of the 1980s, rains failed in the Ethiopian highlands, causing a serious water crisis upriver and downriver. One million Ethiopians died as a result of drought and famine-made worse by Civil War with Eritrea. Egypt averted disaster but Aswan's turbines were nearly shut down, creating an electric power nightmare; and crops failed in the delta, bringing the real prospect of famine," (Who Owns the Nile? Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia's History-Changing Dam by Andrew Carlson). It was evident that building a dam would cause bad things to happen in exchange for good things, one of them being the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River causing Mexico to loose water and the Ataturk Dam in Turkey which affected Syria and Iraq. In the movie Struggle Over the Nile they mention how the dam didn't allow the slit to go out with the Nile and so the farmers now had to use sacks of fertilizer to meet the demand they once could please with only 1 sack of fertilizer. People who have lived near the Nile for generations were forced to moved due to the construction of the dams, leaving behind their native land and moving to provided shelter and the fishing industry also took a toll for all of the fish were stuck in lake Nasser however despite all of these cons there are some pros to the construction of the Aswan Dam.; it allowed the Nile river's flow to be constant thus preventing damage that would normally be caused by the floods and it provides half of Egypt power supply. They plan on building more dams to help increase the water and power supply, one of the upcoming projects by the Ethiopians is the Grand Renaissance Dam.