Sir William Willcocks (September 27, 1852, India – July 28, 1932, Cairo, Egypt) was a British civil engineer. He is remembered for having proposed the first Aswan Dam and undertaking major projects of irrigation in South Africa and Turkey. Nickname: Al Qahirah (The Triumphant City) Cairos location in Egypt Coordinates: Governor Dr. Abdul Azim Wazir Area    - City 210 km²  - Metro 1,492 km² Population  - City 7,438,376  - Density 35,420/km²  - Urban 10,834,495  - Metro 15,200,000 Time zone EET (UTC+2) EEST (UTC+3...

He joined the Indian Public Works Department in 1872, and by 1883 began work with the Egyptian Public Works Department. He was serving as director general of reservoirs for Egypt when he completed his studies and plans in 1902 to contruct the Aswan Dam. He left his position in Egypt by 1897, but four years later he was invited to South Africa with the end of the Boer War. He was asked to look into the possibility of irrigation projects in the Transvall and Orange River Colony. Part of his plans were implemented. It was for this that he was granted the title of KCMG. He later became head of irrigation for the Turkish government, for what was then the greater area of Turkish Arabia. He drew up the first accurate maps of the region, which were subsequently a great help to British expeditionary forces in 1914 and again in 1915. In 1911 he proposed to have the water brought to the ancient area of Chaldea in Southern Iraq. The Hindiyah Barrage was consequently built on the Euphrates near ancient Babylon, bringing 3,500,000 acres under irrigation.^[1] He later worked on irrigation projects in Romania shortly before the outbreak of World War I, and again as late as 1928 in Bengal, where he had received some his early training.^[2] On the Orders insignia, St Michael is often depicted subduing Satan. ... For other uses, see Chaldean. ... The Euphrates (the traditional Greek name, Arabic: الفرات Al-Furat, Armenian: Եփրատ Yeṗrat, Hebrew: פְּרָת Perath, Kurdish: Ferat, Azeri: Fərat, Old Persian: Ufrat, Syriac: ܦܪܘܬ or ܦܪܬ Frot or Prâth, Turkish: Fırat, Akkadian: Pu-rat-tu) is the westernmost of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia (the other being the...

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