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dm

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A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow.

  • A dam is often an essential source of water to farmers of hilly country.

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First, his government brought light to the darkest city in Africa, when it saw through and finished the Bumbuna hydroelectric dam.

The UK move came as the US announced its most concerted bombing campaign yet over northern Iraq to drive Isis forces back, helping Kurdish forces to reclaim Mosul dam.

Mystery at Witchend tells how the young members of the Lone Pine Club bring to justice a gang of saboteurs hoping, perhaps optimistically, to cripple the Allied war effort by blowing up a dam in the Shropshire hills.

Running is the my least strong discipline, but my first lap seemed to pass by quite comfortably as we ran along the edge of the reservoir, even if we were buffeted by wind crossing the dam.

Together with the World Bank, the AfDB is backing the huge Inga III dam project on the river Congo, about 143 miles downstream of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

When, for example, you're at a busy junction, and it means that you can launch off safely, a few essential seconds before the dam breaks and the river of impatient killer metal is released.

However, Peter Duck broke the dam and when I arrived at my English prep school I started reading books in sets – the collected Arthur Ransome, Richmal Crompton, Captain WE Johns, and the usual classics – The Wind in the Willows, Treasure Island, The Coral Island, Stalky and Co, Three Men in a Boat.

American warplanes and drones carried out more than 20 strikes at the weekend near the crucial dam that Isis forces took earlier this month.

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The report entitled "Listening to the People's Voice", which we quoted, was a draft; it differed from the version that was eventually printed.We also wish to clarify that while PADETC is not officially involved in dam-related issues, though they are concerned with sustainable development and the protection of the environment.

Environmentalists are concerned about the number of "pro-dam" people on the team of authors reporting on hydropower.

He also made much of a huge loan to help connect Ethiopia's mega-dam projects to a regional power grid.

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