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An embankment built along the side of a river to control flooding can be called several things. Probably levee is the most common, but it can be dike or floodbank. It can also be called what you called it, an embankment.
levees or banks
A levee
levees
The Aswan High Dam or High Dam, called as-Sad al-'Aali, is an embankment dam completed on 21 July 1970.
Dam
they built irrigation systems to control flooding