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Where the Gabion walls are used?
Gabion walls are used to prevent erosion on shorelines, stream banks, and slopes. They are also used as retaining walls, temporary flood walls and silt filtration for some dams, lining channels and river training. Gabion walls are also often used on small streams as fish barriers and to direct the flow of flow water in a different direction.
How are hydropower plants installed?
Hydro power plants are usually located inside the dams that hold back the rivers.
Does dams cause earthquakes?
no
Dams on the Mississippi river?
none
How many dams in kerala?
28
What are earthen walls dams and pumps to hold back the sea?
polders
Walls the hold back rivers to form lakes?
Dams.
What are walls built to keep out water?
Walls to keep out water are called dams and levees.
The dutch built earthen walls to reclaim land from sea such walls were called?
These walls are called dykes or dams. (dijken in Dutch)
What do you call Building dams channels and walls to bring water to crops?
Irrigation.
How can dams control floods?
Dams hold back water up to the level that they were designed for. They control/regulate the flow of water. Flood waters that come down rivers can be held back (up to the design point) from devastating places further down river. Coastal/sea flooding would not be stopped by dams - but sea walls and the like. Still, preventing river flood waters adding to coastal flooding might help the situation.
What were ancient dams used for?
The same thing modern dams are used for. To hold back water.
How do dams save water?
Dams hold back water up to the level that they were designed for. They control/regulate the flow of water. Flood waters that come down rivers can be held back (up to the design point) from devastating places further down river. Coastal/sea flooding would not be stopped by dams - but sea walls and the like. Still, preventing river flood waters adding to coastal flooding might help the situation.
What are the uses of dams?
To hold back water
What are two ways to help reduce the dangers of floods?
by building dams
What are the actions that had been taken for bullying?
A complex network of dikes, pumps, dams, and canals has been built. sudy island wha love k (;
What holds back water for storage?
Earth or concrete/steel dams.
