Effects Of Dam Building
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Grade 10 Geography
Units 12, 13, 14
Essay - Effects of Dam Building
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 ....
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.... what dams are. A dam is a
barrier built across a water course 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 a ....
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