The Aswan Dam, built with Soviet aid, was a material factor in improving Egypt's lot.
Hoover Dam, built on the Colorado River at the Arizona-Nevada border between 1931 and 1936, is an outstanding example of a curved gravity dam built in a narrow gorge across a major river and employing advanced design principles.
The 90m-high Hells Canyon dam, built in 1967, is the largest privately owned hydroelectric power complex in the country.
The Cuddebackville dam, built in the early 1900's to provide water for a local hydroelectric plant, blocked the sculpins.
(The catastrophic 1928 collapse of the St. Francis dam, built to hold some of the Owens Valley water, did not help).
AT THE heart of Ichiro Ozawa's constituency near Oshu City in north-east Japan stands the huge Isawa dam, built of rock.
It is impounded by Bagnell Dam, built (1929 31) across the Osage River to provide hydroelectric power for the St . Louisarea.
Evidence exists of another masonry-faced earthen dam built about 2700 bce at Sadd el-Kafara, about 30 km (19 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt.
In the late 19th century, it was one of the first French towns to have public electricity, thanks to a hydro-electric dam built on the Rhône.
Probably the most remarkable of these structures was the 35-metre- (115-foot) high earthen dam built in 1675 at Saint-Ferréol, near Toulouse, France.
At the head of the vast Menihek Lake, the Express passed right over the top of a large dam built to supply power to the town of Schefferville.
