Lake Nasser
- proper noun
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Lago Nasser
- Adding to Egypt's precarious water situation, the evaporation from the surface of the 600-kilometer-long Lake Nasser apparently exceeds the earlier estimated amount.
Examples
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Thus, Egypt stands in support of hydropower development in the Nile upstream because Sudan's hydropower facilities help to reduce the sediment reaching Lake Nasser and do not decrease the water flow.
Academic text (2008) -
The remaining 10 billion cubic meters were reserved for mean annual evaporation and seepage losses from Lake Nasser behind the Aswan High Dam.
Academic text (2008) -
Adding to Egypt's precarious water situation, the evaporation from the surface of the 600-kilometer-long Lake Nasser apparently exceeds the earlier estimated amount.
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The remaining 10 billion cubic meters were reserved for mean annual evaporation and seepage losses from Lake Nasser behind the Aswan High Dam.
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Thus, Egypt stands in support of hydropower development in the Nile upstream because Sudan's hydropower facilities help to reduce the sediment reaching Lake Nasser and do not decrease the water flow.
Synonyms
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A large man-made lake in southern Egypt and northern Sudan created by the Aswan High Dam
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward place name formed by the noun 'lake' plus the proper name 'Nasser', so its meaning — a lake called Nasser — is directly derivable from its parts. This naming pattern is cross-linguistically common and would be clear to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words (even if they do not know the historical details about the reservoir).
Etymology
Lake Nasser was made when the Aswan High Dam held back the Nile and created a very large man-made lake. The lake was named after President Gamal Abdel Nasser, so the name now refers to that big, man-made lake in southern Egypt.