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Hoover Dam is a
concrete arch-gravity
dam in the
Black Canyon of the
Colorado River, on the
border between the U.S.
states of
Nevada and Arizona. Constructed...
- The
Three Gorges Dam (simplified Chinese: 三峡大坝;
traditional Chinese: 三峽大壩; pinyin: Sānxiá Dàbà) is a
hydroelectric gravity dam that
spans the Yangtze...
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Tarbela Dam (Pashto: د توربېلې بند, Hindko: تربیلا بند) is an earth-filled
dam along the
Indus River in ****stan's
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It is mainly...
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Millennium Dam and
sometimes referred to as the
Hidase Dam (Amharic: ሕዳሴ ግድብ, romanized: Hidāsē Gidib, Oromo:
Hidha Hidāsē), is a
gravity dam on the Blue...
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Salal Dam (Hindi: सलाल बाँध Salāl Bāndh), also
known as
Salal Hydroelectric Power Station, is a run-of-the-river
hydropower project on the
Chenab River...
- The
Srisailam Dam is
constructed across the
Krishna River in
Nandyal district,
Andhra Pradesh and
Nagarkurnool district,
Telangana near
Srisailam temple...
- The
Aswan Dam, or
Aswan High
Dam, is one of the world's
largest embankment dams,
which was
built across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt,
between 1960 and 1970...
- The St.
Francis Dam, or the San
Francisquito Dam, was a
concrete gravity dam located in San
Francisquito Canyon in
northern Los
Angeles County, California...
- A
dam is a
barrier that
stops or
restricts the flow of
surface water or
underground streams.
Reservoirs created by
dams not only
suppress floods but also...
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Rihand Dam, also
known as
Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar, is the second-largest
dam in
India by
volume (storage),
behind only
Indirasagar Dam of
Madhya Pradesh...
