Dams

well dams are not really controlled. The water will go where ever the dam is not covering. There is nothing controlling the dam, The dam controlls the water. It managed though by workers checking up on it every one and a while to make sure that the dam is still strong and stirdy. If it falls, it could resualt in flooding. They are usally made out of brick or stone, strong materials to help hold it together

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Read the book "The Mountain People" written by Colin M Turnbull. The Mountain People is about the Ik who were a tribe of hunter gathers that got into trouble after the second world war when countries "hardened" their frontiers and the main area the Ik lived in was declared a National park by the Ugandan government. It is a narrative of serious non-adaptation as Turnbull shows that the traditional society of loose co-operation for hunting and weak family bonds is insufficient to meet the new challenge that the tribe faces. The men hunt far from the village and eat what they kill. The women gather for themselves and eat what they gather. Starvation starts to set in and the children and old people die offf at an alarming rate. The Ugandan government tries to setup a sort of food welfare program but set it up miles away from where the Ik roam. Members of the tribe go to the food center and gorge themselves as they move back to their temporary huts and villages. The most frighteneing thing I found was that not a single member of the tribe performed or remembered kindness towards their peers. I don't know if the effects of a Dam would have the same result. I think it was a combination of things that destroyed a society that had lived well for probably hundreds of years. Their land or the land they roamed was declared a National Park and everything they did in the past was against the law. They could poach but they risk their lives doing it and a criminal society is not going to be any better than the destruction of their society as it happened.

A reservoir is used for storing something for later use. These are most commonly associated with the water supplies for cities which must accumulate large quantities of water in a confined area.

Over your head.

Hydel Energy, which means Hydro- Electric energy, i.e., electricity produced with help of water.

flooding

Levees and dams are beneficial to farmlands because they provide the means of irrigation.

The reservoir created by the Three Gorges Dam is about 660 kms (410 mi) in length and 1.12 kms (0.70 mi) in width on average, and contains 39.3 km3 (31,900,000 acre·ft) of water. The total surface area of the reservoir is 1,045 km². The reservoir flooded a total area of 632 km² of land.

Backwash can pin you and the boat indefinitely.

Man Made dams are constructed for several reasons. One may construct a dam to balance water height or achieve agricultural irrigation.

Spillays

power house

core of dam

shells

cut-off trench

cutt off

srainage system

upstream blanket

foundation

the overflow of rivers will cause houses to be washed away, kill humans and most dams have been designed to protect humans for 50-75 years, there are over 10,000 dams in America and many are weak

The Three Gorges Dams were made of concrete.

Dams can bring both benefits and problems to the environment. Dams affect the land and environment over a large area. These dams are also good targets for terrorist activity.

The Hoover Dam is located in Boulder City.

Next time just Google your question. Google is much more reliable. Even Bing is more reliable than Wiki I could say it was in Carson City on this and you wouldn't know the difference. Luckily for you I don't believe in giving people wrong answers.

Building them has considerable environmental impact - it creates a man-made lake that floods great areas. Migrating fish are stopped in their tracks.

Because the nile river flooded mostly than any river in Egypt and so after 7 or more weeks there will be silt left over and the water would dry up but the silt would get stuck in the dam. (Caused less damage as well).

The bog will become less productive.

Nile

It's at the border between Brazil and Paraguay.

They pose hazards both above and below dams

Theye produce electricity, get fishes, and farming around the wet areas

About 5 miles up from any river, that flows from Shasta lake, will be flooded.

a dam affects living things because is destroys their habbitat