Essay - Effects Of Dam Building
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Grade 10 Geography
Units 12, 13, 14
Many people have already dammed a small stream using sticks and mud by
the time they become adults. Humans have used dams since early
civilization, because four-thousand years ago they became aware that
floods and droughts affected their well-being and so the ....
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.... to hold back or control water
flow. Dams are classified as either storage, diversion or detention. As
you could probably notice from it's name, storage dams are created to
collect or hold water for periods of time when there is a surplus supply.
The water is then used when there is a lack of supply. For example many
small dams impound water in the spring, for use in the summer dry months.
Storage dams also supply a water supply, or an improved habitat for fish
and wildlife; they may store ....
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