Aswan Dam in Egypt had to be dredged regularly to remove sediments. After construction of the dam, aquatic weeds grew much faster in the clearer water, helped by fertilizer residues. The total length of the infested waterways was about 27,000 km in the mid-1990s. Weeds have been gradually brought under control by manual, mechanical and biological methods. Mediterranean fishing and brackish water lake fishery declined after the dam was finished because nutrients that flowed down the Nile to the Mediterranean were trapped behind the dam. For example, the sardine catch off the Egyptian coast declined from 18,000 tons in 1962 to a
Aswan Harmud Aswan Harmud Aswan Jibril Harmud is a Somaliland lawyer, and the first female Prosecutor in Somaliland. In 2010, Harmud became the first female prosecutor in Somaliland. This was made possible with the financial assistance of help of the United Nations Development Programme's legal scholarship and internship programme, where at least half the awards are given to women, and with which she was able to finish law school and an internship in the Somaliland Prosecutor's Office. Funding was provided by the European Union. In 2014, Harmud was featured in the "Somali Voices" multimedia project created by the United Nations in Somalia.