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| Erosion |
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Erosion is a gravity driven process that moves solids (sediment, soil, rock and other particles) in the natural environment or their source and deposits them elsewhere. It usually occurs due to transport by wind, water, or ice; by down-slope creep...
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Boulder Dam |
Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada. When completed in 1936, it was both the world's largest hydroelectric power...
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| Kariba Dam |
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The Kariba Dam is a hydroelectric dam in the Kariba Gorge of the Zambezi river basin between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is one of the largest dams in the world at 128 m high and 579 m long.
The double curvature concrete arch dam was constructed between...
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| Road |
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A road is an identifiable route, way or path between places. Roads are typically smoothed, paved, or otherwise prepared to allow easy travel; though they need not be, and historically many roads were simply recognizable routes without any formal...
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| Landslide |
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A landslide (or landslip) is a geological phenomenon which includes a wide range of ground movement, such as rock falls, deep failure of slopes and shallow debris flows, which can occur in offshore, coastal and onshore environments. Although the...
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| Irrigation |
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Irrigation is an artificial application of water to the soil. It is usually used to assist in growing crops in dry areas and during periods of inadequate rainfall. Additionally, irrigation also has a few other uses in crop production, which include...
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| Dartmouth Dam |
Dartmouth Dam is a large dam on the Mitta Mitta River in the north-eastern portion of the Australian state of Victoria. The dam creates the artificial Lake Dartmouth, storing water from the Victorian "High Country's" snow fields for summer release...
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| Three Gorges Dam |
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The Three Gorges Dam (simplified Chinese: 长江三峡大坝; traditional Chinese: 長江三峽大壩; pinyin: Chángjiāng Sānxiá Dàbà) is a hydroelectric river dam that spans the Yangtze River in the town of Sandouping, located in Yiling District of Yichang, Hubei province...
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| Itaipu |
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Itaipu (Guarani: Itaipu, Portuguese: Itaipu, Spanish: Itaipú; Portuguese pronunciation: [itaiˈpu], Spanish pronunciation: [itaiˈpu]) is a hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River located on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
The name "Itaipu" was...
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| Subsidence |
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Subsidence is the motion of a surface (usually, the Earth's surface) as it shifts downward relative to a datum such as sea-level. The opposite of subsidence is uplift, which results in an increase in elevation. Ground subsidence is of concern to...
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| Drinking water |
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Drinking water or potable water is water of sufficiently high quality that it can be consumed or used without risk of immediate or long term harm. In most developed countries, the water supplied to households, commerce and industry is all of...
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| Megatsunami |
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Megatsunami is an informal term to describe a tsunami that has initial wave heights that are much larger than normal tsunamis. Unlike usual tsunamis, which originate from tectonic activity and the raising or lowering of the sea floor, known...
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| Pumped-storage hydroelectricity |
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Pumped storage hydroelectricity is a type of hydroelectric power generation used by some power plants for load balancing. The method stores energy in the form of water, pumped from a lower elevation reservoir to a higher elevation. Low-cost off-peak...
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| W. A. C. Bennett Dam |
The W. A. C. Bennett Dam is a large hydroelectric earthfill dam on the Peace River in northern British Columbia, Canada. The dam, located 19 kilometres (12 mi) west of Hudson's Hope, and 85 kilometres (53 mi) northwest of Chetwynd, is named after...
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| Glen Canyon Dam |
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The Glen Canyon Dam is a dam on the Colorado River at Page, Arizona, USA. It provides water storage for the arid southwestern United States, to generate electricity for the region's growing population, and to provide water recreation opportunities....
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| Grand Coulee Dam |
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Grand Coulee Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington. In the United States, it is the largest electric power-producing facility and the largest concrete structure. It is the fifth largest producer of...
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| Hydroelectricity |
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Hydroelectricity is electricity generated by hydropower, i.e., the production of electrical power through the use of the gravitational force of falling or flowing water. It is the most widely used form of renewable energy. Once a hydroelectric...
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| Teton Dam |
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The Teton Dam was a federally built earthen dam on the Teton River in southeastern Idaho, set between Fremont and Madison Counties, USA which when filling for the first time suffered a catastrophic failure on June 5, 1976. The collapse of the dam...
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| St. Francis Dam |
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The St. Francis Dam was a concrete gravity-arch dam, designed to create a reservoir as a storage point of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. The dam was located 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Los Angeles, California, near the present city of Santa Clarita....
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| Akosombo Dam |
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The Akosombo Hydroelectric Project (Akosombo HEP), usually referred to as the Akosombo Dam, is a hydroelectric dam in southeastern Ghana in the Akosombo gorge on the Volta River. The construction of the dam flooded the Volta River Basin, and the...
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| Pak Mun dam |
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The Pak Mun dam is located 5.5 km west of the confluence of the Mun and Mekong rivers in Ubon Ratchathani province, Thailand. It was constructed by the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) with support from the World Bank at a total...
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| Soil liquefaction |
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Soil liquefaction describes the behavior of soils that, when loaded, suddenly suffer a transition from a solid state to a liquefied state, or having the consistency of a heavy liquid. Liquefaction is more likely to occur in loose to moderately...
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| Bouncing bomb |
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A bouncing bomb is a bomb designed specifically to bounce to a target such as across water to avoid torpedo nets. Unlike skip bombing, which uses conventional bombs as during the March 1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea, the British, Germans, and...
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| Vajont Dam |
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The Vajont Dam (or Vaiont Dam) is a disused dam, completed in 1959 in the valley of the Vajont river under Monte Toc, 100 km north of Venice, Italy. It was responsible for the deaths of approximately 2,000 people in a 1963 landslide.
One of the...
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| Seven Oaks Dam |
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The Seven Oaks Dam is located on the Santa Ana River, 4 miles (6 km) northeast of Redlands, California. It was constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers as a flood control dam. It cost $250 million to construct and at the time of its...
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| Mica Dam |
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Mica Dam is a hydroelectric dam spanning the Columbia River 135 kilometres north of Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada. Completed in 1973 under the terms of the 1964 Columbia River Treaty, the Mica powerhouse has a generating capacity of 1805...
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| Revelstoke Dam |
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Revelstoke Dam, also known as Revelstoke Canyon Dam, is a hydroelectric dam spanning the Columbia River, 5 km north of Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada. The powerhouse was completed in 1984 and has a generating capacity of 1980 MW. Four...
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| Shasta Dam |
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Shasta Dam (National ID No. CA10186) is a concrete gravity arch dam across the Sacramento River in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest of Shasta County, California. The project was completed between 1938 and 1945, 5km north of the Redding, California...
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| Kelly Barnes Dam |
The Kelly Barnes Dam, located in Stephens County, Georgia, just outside of the city of Toccoa, was originally built as a rock crib dam, in 1899, to create a reservoir for a small hydroelectric plant. In 1937, the Toccoa Falls Bible Institute wanted...
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| Vaal dam |
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The Vaal Dam in South Africa was constructed in 1938 and lies 77 km south of OR Tambo International Airport. The lake behind the dam wall has a surface area of about 320 km² and is 47 meters deep. The Vaal Dam lies on the Vaal River, which is one of...
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| Arch dam |
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An arch dam is a thin, curved concrete or masonry dam structure which is built to curve upstream so that the force of the water against it squeezes the arch, compressing and strengthening the structure and pushing it into the ground. An arch dam is...
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| Koyna Dam |
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Koyna Dam is one of the largest dams in Maharashtra, India. It is located in Koyna Nagar, nestled in the Western Ghats on the state highway between Chiplun and Karad, Maharashtra.
The dam supplies water to western Maharashtra as well as cheap...
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| Kurobe dam |
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The Kurobe Dam (黒部ダム) or Kuroyon Dam (黒四ダム), Japan's largest dam, is on the Kurobe River in Toyama Prefecture on the island of Honshū. It generates electricity for the Kansai Electric Power Company. It stands 186 metres (610 ft) high and holds 200...
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| Gatun Dam |
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The Gatun Dam is a large earthen dam across the Chagres River in Panama, near the town of Gatun. The dam, constructed between 1907 and 1913, is a crucial element of the Panama Canal; it impounds the artificial Gatun Lake, which in turn carries ships...
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| Grande Dixence Dam |
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The Grande Dixence dam, at the head of the Val d'Hérens in the canton of Valais in Switzerland, is at 285 metres (935 ft) high one of the world's tallest dams and the highest in Europe. It holds back a lake, the Lac des Dix, around 4 km (2.5 mi)...
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| Bakun Hydroelectric Project |
The Bakun Hydroelectric Project is located in Sarawak, Malaysia on the Balui River, a tributary or source of the Rajang River and some sixty kilometers west of Belaga. As part of the project, the tallest concrete-faced rockfill dam in the world...
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| Opuha Dam |
The Opuha Dam is located on the Opuha River, a tributary of the Opihi River in South Canterbury, New Zealand. The dam is used for water storage for farming irrigation and provides 7.7Mw of electricity to New Zealand's national grid.
The dam failed...
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| Vidraru Dam |
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Vidraru Dam is a dam in Romania. It was built in 1965 on the Argeş River.
It is an arch dam built on a foundation of rock, and it was built to produce hydroelectricity. Its construction created a reservoir, Lake Vidraru. The dam's height is 166...
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| Guri Dam |
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The Guri Dam is one of the largest in the world. It is located in Bolívar State, Venezuela in the Caroni River. Its official name is Central Hidroeléctrica Simón Bolívar (previously named Central Hidroeléctrica Raúl Leoni from 1978 to 2000). It is...
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| Banqiao Dam |
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The Banqiao Reservoir Dam (simplified Chinese: 板桥水库大坝; traditional Chinese: 板橋水庫大壩; pinyin: Bǎnqiáo Shuǐkù Dàbà) and Shimantan Reservoir Dam (simplified Chinese: 石漫滩水库大坝; traditional Chinese: 石漫灘水庫大壩; pinyin: Shímàntān Shuǐkù Dàbà) are among 62 dams...
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| Dike Kokaral |
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Dike Kokaral is a dike across a narrow stretch of the Aral Sea, splitting off the North Aral Sea (also called "The Small Sea") from the much larger South Aral Sea ("The Large Sea"). Work was completed in August 2005.
Water level of the North Aral...
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| Oroville Dam |
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Oroville Dam is on the Feather River above the city of Oroville in Butte County, California, United States. It creates Lake Oroville, generates electricity, and provides drinking and irrigation water for Central and Southern California. The dam,...
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| Mountain Dell Dam |
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The Mountain Dell Dam provides a water equalizing and storage reservoir for Salt Lake City, Utah located 10 miles east of the city in northeastern Salt Lake County, near Interstate 80 in Parley's Canyon.
Designed by John S. Eastwood, and constructed...
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| South Fork Dam |
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The South Fork Dam was located on Lake Conemaugh, an artificial body of water located near South Fork, Pennsylvania, United States. On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam failed and 20 million tons of water from Lake Conemaugh burst through and raced...
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| Tehri dam |
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Tehri Dam is the primary dam of the Tehri Development Project, a major hydroelectric project centered near Tehri Town in the state of Uttaranchal in India. Located on the Bhagirathi River, the principal tributary of the sacred River Ganges, the...
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| Shakidor Dam |
The Shakidor (Shadi Kor) dam is located near Pasni, in the Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan, 1,900 km (1,180 miles) from Islamabad. The dam is 148 meters (485 feet) long. It was built in 2003, at a cost of 45 million rupees ($758,853), to...
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| Dez Dam |
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The Dez Dam (Persian: سد دز) is a large hydroelectric dam built in Iran in 1963 by an Italian consortium.
The dam is on the Dez River in the Northwestern province of Khuzestan, the closest city being Andimeshk. It is 203 metres high, making it one...
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| Inguri Dam |
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The Inguri Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Inguri River in Georgia. Currently it is the world's highest concrete arch dam with a height of 272 metres (890 ft). It is located north of the town Jvari. It is part of the Inguri hydroelectric power...
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| Lawn Lake Dam |
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Lawn Lake Dam was an earthen dam in Rocky Mountain National Park, United States that failed on July 15, 1982 at about 6 a.m. The sudden release of 220 million US gallons (830,000 m³) of water resulted in a flash flood that killed three people...
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| Marib Dam |
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The Marib Dam (Arabic: سد مأرب) blocks the Wadi Adhanah (also Dhana or Adhana) in the valley of Dhana in the Balaq Hills, Yemen. The current dam is close to the ruins of the Great Dam of Marib, dating from around the seventh century BC. It was one...
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| Austin Dam |
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Bayless Paper Company Dam |
Austin Dam was a dam in the Freeman Run Valley, Potter County, Pennsylvania, which serviced the Bayless Pulp & Paper Mill. A failure of the dam in 1911 caused significant destruction in the valley below.
In 1900, Bayless Paper chose to construct a...
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| Nam Theun II Hydropower Project | Nam Theun II |
The Nam Theun II Hydropower Project (NT2) is a hydro power project on the Nam Theun river in Laos, with commercial operation expected to begin in October 2009. The scheme will divert water from the Nam Theun, a tributary of the Mekong River, to the...
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| New Melones Dam |
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New Melones Dam is an earth and rock filled dam across the Stanislaus River creating New Melones Lake. Situated between Calaveras- and Tuolumne County, California in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Jamestown, the dam was completed in 1979 replacing...
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| New Bullards Bar Dam |
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New Bullards Bar Dam is a dam in California on the Yuba River and forms the New Bullards Bar Reservoir, which has a capacity of 996,103 acre feet (1.23 km³). It is located near the town of Dobbins in Yuba County. The dam is operated by the Yuba...
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| Atatürk Dam |
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Ataturk Dam |
The Atatürk Dam (Turkish: Atatürk Barajı), originally the Karababa Dam, is a zoned rock-fill dam with a central core on the Euphrates River on the border of Adıyaman Province and Şanlıurfa Province in Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. Built...
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| Bhakra Dam |
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Bhakra Nangal Dam is a concrete gravity dam across the Sutlej River, near the border between Punjab and Himachal Pradesh in northern India. The dam, located in the village of Bhakra in the Bilaspur region of Himachal Pradesh, is Asia's largest at...
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| Rogun Dam |
Rogun Dam is an unfinished dam across the Vakhsh River in southern Tajikistan. Construction began in 1976, however the project was frozen. In February 2007, Russia announced a partnership with Tajikistan to complete the dam.
It is listed as the...
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| Karun-3 dam |
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The Karun-3 dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Karun river in the province of Khuzestan, Iran. It was built to help meet Iran's energy demands as well as to provide flood control. The Karun has the highest discharge of Iran's rivers. The objectives...
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| Merowe Dam |
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The Merowe High Dam, also known as Merowe Multi-Purpose Hydro Project or Hamdab Dam, is a large construction project in Merowe Town in northern Sudan, about 350 km north of the capital Khartoum. It is situated on the river Nile, close to the 4th...
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| Katse Dam |
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The Katse Dam, part of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project--Africa's second largest dam (The Tekeze dam, completed in early 2009, is now Africa's largest double curvature dam), eventually to include 5 large dams in remote rural areas--is a concrete...
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