The first new design was by Alexander Gorlov, a Russian civil engineer who worked on the Aswan High Dam in Egypt.

第一个新设计是俄罗斯的土木工程师亚历山大.佐罗夫完成的，他先在埃及的阿斯旺大坝工作，后来移居到美国。

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37a section of Lake Nasser in Egypt, a massive reservoir behind the Aswan High Dam on the Nile River, seen from the International Space Station in January of 2010.

2010年1月份，国际空间站上拍摄到的埃及纳赛尔湖，这座尼罗河阿斯旺大坝上的大型水库。

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Three of the biggest man-made projects in the world are the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids of Egypt and the Aswan High Dam, which is also in Egypt.

世界上最大的三项人造工程是中国的长城，埃及的金字塔和阿斯旺高坝，它也在埃及。

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Or take the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, an unmitigated disaster, according to ecologists.

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They added that since the completion of the Aswan High Dam, Egypt's population had doubled, calorie intake and meat consumption had risen by more than a third, and the use of fertilisers had increased four-fold.

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Jelal is a Nubian, one of the people who lived in southernmost Egypt and northern Sudan until the 1960s, when the Aswan High Dam flooded their land.

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