Why is the Hoover dam called the greatest dam?

Answer 1

Many reasons. It's massive size, the fact that it supplies much of the Nevada (including Las Vegas) region with water, it was built during the Great Depression and provided many with jobs, and also because of the horrid fact that some men helping to build it were cemented over after they fell.

Answer 2

the fact that it supplies much of the Nevada (including Las Vegas)region with water.

Answer 3

After President Herbert Hoover, who was president when it was completed.

Answer 4

Hoover did a lot of public service work after he left the White House. He was instrumental in getting the dam built, so people decided he deserved the honor of having it named after him.

Answer 5

Hoover Dam boarders Nevada and Arizona was named after President Herbert Hoover.

Answer 6

It was named in honour of President Herbert Hoover, but once known as the Boulder Dam. It was built between 1931 and 1936.

Answer 7

The Hoover Dam was at one time the largest dam in the world, which generated the most amount of electricity, but since then it has been surpassed by the Three Gorges Dam in China.

Answer 8

because