Dams

The Atatürk Dam (Atatürk Barajı), originally the Karababa Dam, is a zoned rock-fill dam with a central core on the

The Fort Peck Dam is the highest of six major dams along the Missouri River, located in northeast Montana in

The Taum Sauk pumped storage plant is in the St. Francois mountain region of the Missouri Ozarks about 90 miles

The Shannon hydroelectric Scheme was a major development by the Irish Free State in the 1920s to harness the power

The Itaipu Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River located on the border between Brazil and Paraguay. The

Tarbela Dam (Urdu/Pashto: تربیلا بند) is an earth fill dam on the Indus River in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. It’s

Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River,

Grand Coulee Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, built to

Oroville Dam is an earthfill embankment dam on the Feather River east of the city of Oroville, California, in the

The Aswan High Dam is an embankment dam built across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt, between 1960 and 1970. Its

Early dam building took place in Mesopotamia and the Middle East. Dams were used to control the water level, for

The Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station or Zhigulyovskaya Hydroelectric Station, formerly known as Kuybyshev Hydroelectric Station (Kuybyshev GES) is a large dam

The Afsluitdijk is a major causeway in the Netherlands, constructed between 1927 and 1932 and running from Den Oever on

Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, United States, near the town

Gavins Point Dam is a large embankment rolled-earth and chalk-fill dam on the Missouri River located in both Nebraska and