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Pages in category "Dams in Vietnam" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
A letter of commitment has been issued by the Cambodian authorities for a pre-feasibility study of the dam by an unknown Korean company [1] Surrounding the dam site is the Bannan Irrigation project, covering some 20,000 hectares (49,000 acres), and the dam is understood to play a role in the irrigation of this area, as well as generating ...
The Hòa Bình Dam on the Black River (Vietnamese: Sông Đà) is the largest hydroelectric dam in Vietnam from 1994 to 2012 (this record was broken by Sơn La Dam), and one of the largest in Southeast Asia, with a generating capacity of 1,920 MW. [1] [2] The Sông Đà Reservoir, with a capacity of 9 billion m 3 was formed as the river was ...
The Klamath River dams removal project was a significant win for tribal nations on the Oregon-California border who for decades have fought to restore the river back to its natural state.
Xayaburi Power counters that the facility is a run-of-river dam, so outflow from the 514 million cubic metre reservoir equals inflow. [34] The power company claims it cannot share the inflow and outflow levels of the dam as the information is classified in accordance with the company's Lao government contract.
The Dam Busters is a combat flight simulation game set in World War II and published by U.S. Gold. It was released in 1984 for ColecoVision and Commodore 64; in 1985 for Apple II, MS-DOS, MSX, and ZX Spectrum; then in 1986 for the Amstrad CPC and NEC PC-9801. It is loosely based on Operation Chastise and the 1955 film.
The word dam can be traced back to Middle English, [1] and before that, from Middle Dutch, as seen in the names of many old cities, [2] such as Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Ancient dams were built in Mesopotamia and the Middle East for water control. The earliest known dam is the Jawa Dam in Jordan, dating to 3,000 BC. Egyptians also built dams ...
The nearly 8100 major dams in the United States in 2006. The National Inventory of Dams defines a major dam as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3). [1]