Or take the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, an unmitigated disaster, according to ecologists.
In Egypt the government has allocated Alwaleed 430, 000 acres in Egypt's South Valley (near Aswan).
'Sundown is my favourite moment to be on the water, ' says Jelal, one of Aswan's many boatmen.
They may be from Alexandria, from Cairo, from Dumietta, from the North, from Aswan, from Upper Egypt.
So would the World Bank today lend money for an Aswan dam if it did not already exist?
Egypt, for instance, seems to be stuck with the catastrophic Aswan dam, which is holding back the Nile's silt.
On Tuesday the state department said chartered evacuation flights would leave from Alexandria, Aswan and Luxor, in addition to Cairo.
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February 1997: At least 11 people die after a collision caused by human error and a signalling failure north of Aswan.
The climate here is similar to that shown by the tables for Aswan in Egypt or Biskra and In Salah in Algeria.
In 1878, the obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle, originally cut from the quarries of Aswan in about 1475 BC, was erected in London.
The overnight rail link from Egypt's capital city to its southern cultural treasure-troves of Luxor and Aswan was long famed for its exemplary Orient Express-style service.
"We have been unlucky in Luxor and Aswan as the so-called cultural tourism has been down this year and last year also, " Mr Saad says.
The Centre for Nubian Studies at the Nubia Museum in Aswan and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo were created with UNESCO support.
The second stage will be held on May 11-12 instead of May 15-16 in Giza, Alexandria, Sohaj, Bani Swaif, Aswan, Suez, Red Sea and New Valley.
In Egypt the government has allocated the prince 430, 000 acres in the South Valley, near Aswan, which he plans to reclaim and develop for agricultural use.
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.
'What really excites me, ' says Jelal, waving to a friend who is climbing a mast to tie up his sail, 'is to make the journey from Aswan to Luxor.
Aswan started life here, as a garrison town on the tip of Elephantine Island, before spreading on to the east bank, where it faces the sands of the Western Desert.
The historical Nubian Temples campaign, for the protection of the Egyptian monuments in Nubia from the rising waters of the Aswan High Dam, mobilized the international community for the protection of the World Heritage.
For thousands of years, the sitting figure of Ramses II watched over the Nil, till the construction of the Aswan dam threatened to drown the ancient temple under the waters of the river.
Artefacts from the National Museum of Damascus (the Syrian Arab Republic) and the Nubian Museum in Aswan (Egypt) are selected to highlight this intercultural exchange of scientific, religious and artistic forms of knowledge.
Thus the cold war spread to north Africa and Egypt (the Russians duly stepped in to finance the Aswan dam, and much else), and Israel became ever more closely tied to the United States.
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.
The Aswan high dam, for example, is often cited as a cautionary example, a quixotic construction that now reduces the mighty Nile to a dribble before it trickles to the sea, leaving behind an explosion of water hyacinth, outbreaks of bilharzia, polluted irrigation channels and a build-up of sediment inland that would otherwise compensate for coastal erosion from Egypt to Lebanon.
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