Aswan Dam insignificant compared to what is needed to reach the yields achieved today in Egypt's irrigation. Also, the annual spread of sediment due to the Nile floods occurred along the banks of the Nile. Areas far from the river which never received the Nile floods before are now being irrigated. A more serious issue of trapping of sediment by the dam is that it has increased coastline erosion surrounding the Nile Delta. The coastline erodes an estimated per year. Before the construction of the High Dam, groundwater levels in the Nile Valley fluctuated 8–9 m per year with the water level
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.