Dams

Dam on the river Volta, which formed Lake Volta		Akosombo Dam
Dam on the River Nile, originally built by the British 1899–1902; raised in 1912, and again in 1933		Aswan Dam
Built on the Nile between 1958 and 1971 (6km upstream from the earlier dam), with Soviet financial aid – leading to the formation of Lake Nasser, and necessitating the relocation of the Abu Simbel temples		Aswan High Dam
Original name of the Hoover Dam, reinstated under Roosevelt's administration (after he defeated Hoover); name reverted to Hoover under Truman in 1947		Boulder Dam
Built on the Columbia River, 1933–42; created Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake		Grand Coulee Dam
Built on the Colorado River at Boulder Gorge, Nevada, during the Great Depression – a masterpiece of Art Deco design; impounds Lake Mead		Hoover Dam
The world's largest power plant – supplies 25% of Brazil's power and 90% of Paraguay's; spans the Parana river between Paraguay and Brazil; when completed (1982) replaced the Grand Coulee Dam as the world's largest concrete structure		Itaipu Dam
Dam on the Zambesi in Mozambique, attracted controversy in Britain in the early 1970s over the involvement of Barclay's Bank		Kabora Bassa Dam
Built on the Zambesi river on the borders of Zambia and Zimbabwe, 1955–9 (but not finally completed until 1977)		Kariba Dam
Highest dam in the USA – 770ft (235m) high – on the Feather River, California, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada; named after the city that it supplies with water		Oroville Dam
The world's highest dam (1120ft, 335m): "largely completed" 1991, on the Vakhsh River in Tajikistan		Rogun Dam
Dam on the Yangtze River, China: construction started in 1994; structural work completed in 2006, became fully operational in 2009; the world's largest electricity generating plant		Three Gorges Dam

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