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Many of the dams and reservoirs in Brazil listed below are used primarily used to produce hydroelectric power. ... Xingó Dam: Alagoas Sergipe: 1994: 60: 3,162: See also
The dam is 196 metres (643 ft) high, equivalent to a 65-story building. [21] Though it is the seventh largest reservoir in size in Brazil, the Itaipu's reservoir has the highest ratio of electricity production to flooded area. For the 14,000 MW installed power, 1,350 square kilometres (520 sq mi) were flooded.
Palm Canyon Dam Reservoir: Palm Canyon Dam [10] Riverside: Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Indians: none (Palo Verde Valley Irrigation District) Palo Verde Diversion Dam: Colorado River: Riverside: United States Bureau of Reclamation: 1957: Earth and rock: 46: 14?? Pardee Reservoir: Pardee Dam: Mokelumne River: Amador and Calaveras: East Bay ...
Oahe Dam [2] United States: 1963 70.3 75 29 786 TE/ER 6 Batha 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 ...
A national push to "rewild" looks to restore natural environments that might help mitigate the effects of climate change.
The Billings Reservoir (locally known as Represa Billings) is the largest reservoir in São Paulo, Brazil, covering a total of 127 km 2 (49 sq mi). It is named after Asa White Kenney Billings, the American hydroelectric engineer who was instrumental in building it. The Portuguese word represa also means "dam".
Two Brazilian states have asked a court to more than double the amount that miners Vale and BHP, plus a jointly owned tie-up, must pay in damages for a 2015 deadly tailings dam failure, according ...
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