InstitutionClaim Cited
Aswan High Dam administration
Egypt's Aswan High Dam converted the Nile's variable flow into a national reserve of water and electricity that later buffered both drought and flood. Building that capability also put a construction deadline ahead of the social continuity of Egyptian and Sudanese Nubian communities, then distributed sediment, drainage, fertility, coastal, and resettlement obligations among institutions that could no longer treat the dam as a finished object.
What did planners count as part of the dam before the reservoir rose, and who could force the uncounted obligations back into its operating system?