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Abstract Egypt relies heavily upon the Nile River, which forms more than 95% of the national water budget. The Nile and its tributaries (White Nile, Blue Nile) flow through Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, D.RCongo, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, North Sudan and Egypt .Nile River floods ranges from 42 to 150 billion cubic meters per year. The High Aswan Dam Reservoir (HADR) is one of the largest artificial lakes in the world; the total storage capacity of it is about 162 billion cubic meters at the maximum water level (182.00 m) MSL. The area of the HADR is about 6500 km2at the maximum water level (182.00 m) MSL with average width 13 km and total length 500 km (about 335 km within the Egyptian borders known as Lake Nasser and 165 km inside the Sudanese borders which known as Lake Nubia). High Aswan Dam operation rules were determined by the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI) according to different restrictions to ensure dam safety and suitable water management all of that according to different restrictions. The purpose of this research is studying the impact of these environmental variables on High Aswan Dam OperationRules. The research is divided into two major parts: The first part deals with the simulation of the lake Nasser taking into consideration all possible inflow scenarios, water release downstream HAD, the Sudan abstraction, evaporation with different scenarios, El Sheikh Zayed water demand, Toshka outflow, seepage and bank storage losses. The study takes into consideration lake operation and share reduction according to 1959 international treaty between Sudan and Egypt, the simulation of multiple-year simulation fordifferent consecutive floods for a period of (two, three, five and seven years) and different initial lake water levels. The second part investigates the water quality of Lake Nasser and the effect of water level on the physicochemical variables of High Aswan Dam Reservoir (HADR) water; Different water quality data were analyzed. These data are collected from 14 sites in Sudan border through four years monitoring program (2001, 2003, 2006 and 2008), and statistical analysis was performed using statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS 17) to evaluate the relation between water level and water quality variables. The change of water level for HADR has an effect on some water quality variables which affect consequently the quality of the lake inflow. |