And it isn't just dam. It's dam after dam after dam.

In 1970, the dam bursts. The dam bursts.

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Do you know that the dam helps make enough electricity... to light up homes 300 miles away?

Oh, that's Hoover Dam.

Beaver dams, yes. Hoover Dam, no.

d. Al Adhaim Dam Project (1994 1995)

We've just built this big dam downriver.

The dam will bring them the electricity.

And that's Lake Meade behind the dam.

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

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

It's too risky now. We're already abandoning the dam.

The crowd flooded in like water into a dam.

They must get a lot of power from this dam.

This course will take in the countryside around Hoover Dam...

The shark check dam it seems that caresses with his nose.

That's right. They're going to close the gates of that dam Monday.

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 water won't rise, Sam, until they close the gates of the dam.

I think I'll go jump over the dam and take this with me.

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

These arrangements are being reviewed with DAM and United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG).

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.

Maybe someday you'd like to come over to the dam, and I'll show you. Okay?

It's 6 10 A.M., ladies and gentlemen... and right now they're approaching the Hoover Dam.

(a) Two offices (DAM OHRM and DAM OUSG) have Professional female staff exceeding 50 per cent of the total Professional staff they are the only offices to meet the General Assembly mandated goal as of 30 June 1997

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.

(iii) Laftah dam project, South Mauritania 1993, with financing from the Africa 2000 Network of UNDP.

The dam is finished, and once they close those gates and the water starts to rise...

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

Such practices often accompany large scale development projects, such as dam building and other major energy projects.

But if we can get that data out from behind the dam so software innovators can pounce on it, the way software innovators like to do, who knows what we'll be able to come up with.

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

Leick Thorne. He's a woodsman. He helped build the house and the dam and the boathouse and all.

All it means is my father came here to work on the dam and liked it and stayed.

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.

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.

Everybody's coming through in apparently good order... as the cars come over the dam, a beautiful sight to see.

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.