In 1970, the dam bursts. The dam bursts.

Beaver dams, yes. Hoover Dam, no.

So what you see here is the Three Gorges Dam, and this is the largest dam by 50 percent ever attempted by man.

(1) Hydropower dam project in Adralala (Benin Togo)

After slowing its dam building program in response to the serious environmental consequences of completion in 2006 of the Three Gorges Dam the world s largest China is now rushing to build a new generation of giant dams. At a time when dam building has largely petered out in the West and run into growing grassroots opposition in other democracies like Japan and India China will remain the nucleus of the world s mega dam projects.

The Classification Control scheduling principle of ship passing dam was added in the Scheduling Regulation . The priority of ship passing dam would be determined according to the functional localization of navigation lock and ship lift respectively. The short term passenger ship passing dam would be adjusted to be in the same priority as the demonstration ship and integrity ship.

Well, basically, we dam it, we pollute it, we pour in pesticides, weedicides, fungicides.

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

Until when the dam of Gog and Magog has been opened and they, from every elevation, descend

Until when the dam of Gog and Magog has been opened and they, from every elevation, descend

The Scheduling Regulation also put forward the measures of integrity constraint for the rule breaking ships according to the current characteristics of ship passing dam and waiting for crossing lock, such as canceling the declaration and delaying the time of passing dam for 24 hours.

A complex and expensive operation to dam an entire deposition on a bend of the Upper Lofa River

With its industry now dominating the global hydropower equipment market, China has also emerged as the largest dam builder overseas. From Pakistani held Kashmir to Burma s troubled Kachin and Shan states, China has widened its dam building to disputed or insurgency torn areas, despite local backlashes.

If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young

If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young

And we get to Hama. We get all the way from the dam to Hama and there's no bridge.

So I spent about three trips to the Three Gorges Dam, looking at that massive transformation of a landscape.

Experiments in water management focus on the development of water harvesting techniques, the promotion of desalination plants and dam construction.

After the enforcement of new regulations, the plan of security check would be released once every day at 9 00 and 21 00, and the plan of passing dam would be released once every day at 14 00 and 20 00, so that the ships could flexibly arrange the plan of passing dam.

At the same time, the navigation scheduling management waters were adjusted from the 180 kilometer waters close to dam to the 541.8 kilometer waters from Yunyang Yangtze River Bridge to Shishou Yangtze River Bridge in the Scheduling Regulation . And the core waters , water close to dam , control waters and scheduling waters were divided.

And then they got the Aswan Dam. They got electricity in their homes, they increased education and they got primary health care.

For two decades, Myanmar behaved likewise, until Chinese overreach, particularly the now abandoned Myitsone dam project, revealed in full the subservient relationship that China envisioned. Indeed, China s arrogance 100 of the power from the proposed dam was to be exported to China was probably the key factor in precipitating Myanmar s democratic political transition and new openness to the world.

Political and economic water wars are already being waged in several regions, reflected in dam construction on international rivers and coercive diplomacy or other means to prevent such works. Consider, for example, the silent water war triggered by Ethiopia s dam building on the Blue Nile, which has elicited Egyptian threats of covert or overt military reprisals.

Rains in March and April particularly affected Oruzgan, Ghazni and Jowzjan provinces, notably resulting in the bursting of the Ghazni dam on 29 March.

A project has been undertaken to select seven sites for potential dam construction in different areas in Jordan in collaboration with the Jordan Valley Authority.

Take this flood prevention bank for example, the dam may collapse at any moment when flood hits, and the flood would rush into houses of residents living along the bank. Now we use cement to infill a solid dam so that we could transfer residents along the bank with ease in the case of flooding in a bid to reduce property losses.

For example, units of the People s Liberation Army are engaged in dam and other strategic projects in the restive, Shia majority region of Gilgit Baltistan in Pakistan held Kashmir. And China s dam building inside Burma to generate power for export to Chinese provinces has contributed to renewed bloody fighting recently, ending a 17 year ceasefire between the Kachin Independence Army and the government.

In the flood more than one month ago, the dam on one side of the river collapsed, with massive stones and washings rolling into the river.

We're now planning to infill the dam with cement, and the flood prevention bank will be solid enough to withstand the worst flooding in 50 years.

He said, What my Lord has empowered me with is better. But assist me with strength, and I will build between you and them a dam.

He said, What my Lord has empowered me with is better. But assist me with strength, and I will build between you and them a dam.

In western Pakistan nearly three weeks of heavy rains resulted in severe flooding, which in turn led to the collapse of a major dam in Sind province.

This action would help the ship choose the proper waters to wait for crossing the lock, avoiding excessive ships waiting for crossing the lock in the dam region.

But then the monsoon arrives, and unfortunately downriver there is always a dam or there is always a barrage, and, shoop, they get washed down to their doom.

Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep seven days it shall be with his dam on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep seven days it shall be with his dam on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

We go to the dam that we talked about, we start just literally going through every time that road crosses the river, crossing off the bridges that don't match.

Dam construction in China has never been open to public debate. China s environmental activists, meanwhile, have focused on the politically safe issues of protecting biodiversity, recycling, and environmental education.

China has already built six mega dams on the Mekong the lifeblood for continental Southeast Asia with its latest addition being the 254 meter high Nuozhadu Dam, whose gargantuan reservoir is designed to hold nearly 22 billion cubic meters of water. The current dam building plans threaten the Salween River s Grand Canyon a UNESCO World Heritage site and the pristine, environmentally sensitive areas through which the Brahmaputra and the Mekong flow.

He said, That in which my Lord has established me is better than what you offer , but assist me with strength I will make between you and them a dam.

He said, That in which my Lord has established me is better than what you offer , but assist me with strength I will make between you and them a dam.

But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.

But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.

But they turned away, so We unleashed against them the flood of the dam and We substituted their two gardens with two gardens of bitter fruits, thorny shrubs, and meager harvest.