The Aswan High Dam, which captures floodwater during rainy seasons and releases water during times of drought, generates about half of Egypt's power supply.
The granite for the sculpture was quarried from Aswan and extracted in a single colossal block-the whole statue would have originally weighed about 20 tons.
The Aswan High Dam in southern Egypt was constructed across the Nile back in the 1960s which created behind it the huge reservoir known as Lake Nassar.
And if Lake Nasser's water levels decrease, it means that the Aswan High Dam won't have as much water available to run through its turbines to generate electricity.
The Cold War also affected the Middle East. In the nineteen fifties, both East and West offered aid to Egypt to build the Aswan High Dam on the Nile River.
This story has survived through the ages thanks to the appropriately named Famine Stela, a inscription found on Sehel Island near the city of Aswan, once the main southern frontier of Egypt.