Urgent plan to develop Lake Nasser

CAIRO - 21 December 2018: A plan will be devised to develop Lake Nasser and its fisheries resources in coordination with all agencies concerned, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Ezz el Din Abu Steit said Friday.

The minister stressed that importance of optimizing all the available resources to achieve the sustainable growth and increasing the fish production.

Abu Steit’s remarks came during his visit to the Lake Nasser Development Authority HQ, accompanied by Aswan governor Ahmed Ibrahim, and other senior officials.

Lake Nasser is a vast reservoir in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. It is one of the largest man-made lakes in the world.

The lake is some 479 km long and 16 km across at its widest point, which is near the Tropic of Cancer. It covers a total surface area of 5,250 km2 and has a storage capacity of some 132 km3 of water.