Down Memory Lane: Dam-builder extraordinaire helped defend Suez Canal by Bill McAllister By Contributor Published: 07:30, 24 January 2021 Get the Inverness Courier sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper Pictured from the International Space Station, the Aswan Dam in Egypt separates Lake Nasser from the Nile River. Picture: NASA/Wikimedia Commons This year marks the centenary of Invernessâs civil engineering icon Sir Murdoch MacDonald ending his 23-year connection with the Egyptian government as an expert on major dams and irrigation projects. He would go on to be MP for Inverness â and to persuade the secretary of state for Scotland to issue an order to protect the Loch Ness Monster!