The Effects of Dam Building
Title: The Effects of Dam Building
Category: /Society & Culture/Environment
Details: Words: 1692 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Effects of Dam Building
Category: /Society & Culture/Environment
Details: Words: 1692 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
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Grade 10 Geography
Units 12, 13, 14
Essay - Effects of Dam Building
By:Brenden Kilmartin
Many people have already dammed a small stream using sticks and mud by the
time they become adults. Humans have used dams since early civilization,
because four-thousand years ago they became aware that floods and droughts
affected their well-being and so they began to build dams to protect
themselves from these effects.1
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of for example an overflow concrete gravity
dam, the water that overflows into dikes of earthfill construction.4
A dam's primary function is to trap water for irrigation. Dams help to
decrease the severity of droughts, increase agricultural production, and
create new lands for agricultural use. Farmland, however, has it's price;
river bottomlands flooded, defacing the fertility of the soil. This
agricultural land may also result in a loss of natural artifacts. Recently in#psw4lnk