m. of water, to produce 10 billion kilowatts of power annually, and to provide irrigation for an additional 1.3 million acres of cultivated land area. All this was projected to permit recovery of the US $ 1 billion dollar cost of the dam within two years and to double the Egyptian economy within ten.
人們預期，它的發電量將達一百億千瓦；引它的水灌溉，可增加一百卅萬英畝的耕地；十億美金的建壩工程費，二年就可回收；十年後，埃及經濟會因它帶來快速的成長。