admin 10) Three Gorges Dam The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China. Since 2012, The Three Gorges Dam has been the world’s largest power station in terms of installed capacity (22,500 MW). In 2018, annual electricity … Read more
9) Hirakud Dam Hirakud Dam is built across the Mahanadi River, about 15 kilometers (9 mi) from Sambalpur in the state of Odisha in India. It is the longest earthen dam in the world. It is one of the first major multipurpose river valley projects that started after India’s independence. The Hirakud Dam is a … Read more
8) Oroville Dam Oroville Dam is an earthfill embankment dam on the Feather River east of the city of Oroville, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of the Sacramento Valley. It is one of the tallest dams in the U.S. It serves mainly for water supply, hydroelectricity generation, and flood control. The dam impounds … Read more
7) Mangla Dam The Mangla Dam is situated on the Jhelum River in the Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir. It is the sixth-largest dam in the world. The Mangla Dam components include a reservoir, main embankment, intake embankment, main spillway, emergency spillway, intake structures, 5 tunnels, and a power station. The main embankment is earthfill … Read more
6) Jinping-I Dam The Jinping-I Dam also known as the Jinping-I Hydropower Station or Jinping 1st Cascade, is a tall arch dam on the Jinping Bend of the Yalong River (Yalong Jiang) in Liangshan, Sichuan, China. The construction of the project started in 2005. Its power station has a 3,600 MW capacity to produce between … Read more
5) Gardiner Dam The Gardiner Dam on the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatchewan is the third-largest embankment dam in Canada and one of the largest embankment dams in the world. The dam rises 64 meters (209 feet) in height, is almost 5 km (3.1 mi) long, and has a width of 1.5 km (0.93 mi) … Read more
4) Atatürk Dam The Atatürk Dam is the third largest dam in the world and it is a zoned rock-fill dam with a central core on the Euphrates River on the border of Adıyaman Province and Şanlıurfa Province in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. It was renamed in honor of “Mustafa Kemal Atatürk” the … Read more
3) Fort Peck Dam The Fort Peck Dam is the highest of six major dams along the Missouri River, located in northeast Montana in the United States. It is the largest hydraulically filled dam in the United States. The dam and the 134-mile-long (216 km) lake are owned and operated by the U.S. Army Corps … Read more
2) Tarbela Dam Tarbela Dam is an earth-filled dam along the Indus River in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It is the largest earth-filled dam in the world. The dam is 143 meters (470 ft) high above the riverbed and its reservoir, Tarbela Lake, has a surface area of approximately 250 square kilometers (97 sq mi). … Read more
1) Oahe Dam The Oahe Dam is a large earthen dam on the Missouri River. The Oahe Dam was constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. It is one of the most beautiful dams in the world. The dam creates Lake Oahe, the fourth-largest man-made reservoir in the United States. The reservoir … Read more