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5 days ago · dam, structure built across a stream, a river, or an estuary to retain water. Dams are built to provide water for human consumption, for irrigating arid and semiarid lands, or for use in industrial processes. They are used to increase the amount of water available for generating hydroelectric power, to reduce peak discharge of floodwater ...
- The Modern Dam
Dam - The modern dam: Most modern dams are of two basic...
- Buttress Dams
buttress dam, concrete dam in which the smooth upstream face...
- Gravity Dam
Concrete gravity dams usually run in a straight line across...
- The Modern Dam
3 days ago · Abstract. Reservoirs and tidal barriers are two of the most complex types of hydraulic structures used to manage river flows and control water levels. This chapter begins with a general overview of approaches to flow control before discussing reservoirs and tidal barriers in more detail. For reservoirs, optimisation and forecasting techniques ...
5 days ago · A Topographical Dictionary of England. Seventh edition. Contains detailed topographical accounts of places, parishes and counties in England. Originally published in four volumes, here given together. Topographical Dictionaries . This free content was digitised by double rekeying. All rights reserved .
5 days ago · CNN —. The United Kingdom’s decision to hand the center-left Labour Party a parliamentary majority, according to the exit poll, comes at the same time Europe is broadly in the grip of what ...
1 day ago · The history of the United Kingdom begins in 1707 with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, [1] into a new unitary state called Great Britain. [a] Of this new state, the historian Simon Schama said:
2 days ago · July 7, 2024. The largest water body ever has been discovered in space. Credit: Postsumptio. CC BY 2.0/ flickr. Over the span of two years, two teams of astronomers have worked tirelessly to discover what can now be presented as the largest reservoir of water ever detected, and it’s in space. A 12-billion-year old body of water has been found ...
23 hours ago · 5. Halloween, Michael Myers and His Sister (1978) Halloween —John Carpenter’s 1978 indie horror flick that both began a dense franchise and made the slasher film a thing—starts with a ...
