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Reservoir Dam River Country Year Nominal volume km 3 Ref. 1: Lake Kariba: Kariba Dam: Zambezi River Zambia and Zimbabwe: 1959: 180.6, [1] 160.3 [2] 2: Bratsk Reservoir: Bratsk Dam: Angara River Russia: 1964: 169, [1] 169.3 [2] 3: Lake Volta: Akosombo Dam: Volta River Ghana: 1965: 150, [1] 148 [2] 4: Manicouagan Reservoir: Daniel-Johnson Dam ...
Oahe Dam [2] United States: 1963 70.3 75 29 786 TE/ER 6 Mangla Dam Pakistan: 1967 65.4 147 7.25 1,000 TE or TE/ER 7 Gardiner Dam [6] Canada: 1967 65.4 64 9.4 186 TE 8 Oroville Dam United States: 1968 59.6 230 4.36 819 TE/ER 9 San Luis Dam (BF Sisk Dam) United States: 1967 59.6 93 2.52 424 TE 10 Nurek Dam Tajikistan: 1980 54 300 10.5 3,200 TE 11 ...
Lake Powell, impounded by Glen Canyon Dam, is the second-largest reservoir in the U.S.. This is a list of largest reservoirs in the United States, including all artificial lakes with a capacity greater than or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3).
The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China is more than five times the size of the Hoover Dam . It creates a reservoir 600 km (370 mi) long to be used for flood control and hydropower generation.
Below are the reservoirs (artificial lakes) in the world with a surface area exceeding 500 km 2 (190 sq mi). Reservoirs can be formed conventionally, by damming the outlet of a canyon or valley to form a lake; the largest of this type is Ghana's Lake Volta, with a water surface of 8,500 km 2 (3,300 sq mi).
A reservoir (/ ˈ r ɛ z ər v w ɑːr /; from French réservoir [ʁezɛʁvwaʁ]) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.
Djorf Torba Dam; Keddara Dam; Koudiat Acerdoune Dam; Meraldene Dam; boughrara Dam; Beni Bahdel Dam; Mafrouch Dam; Sikak Dam; Sidi Abdelli Dam; Ain Tolba Dam; Sarno Dam
Dam Height Length Type Storage capacity Reservoir Area Complete Uttar Pradesh: Rihand River: Rihand Dam (Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar) 91.44 m (300 ft) 934.45 m (3,066 ft) Concrete Gravity 10.6 km 3 - 374.34 TMC 450 km 2. 1962 Kerala: Periyar River: Idukki Dam: 168.91 m (554 ft) 365.85 m (1200 ft) Double curvatureArch 1.996 km 3 - 70.49 TMC ...