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Hoover dam - U.S.A

Colorado river


Opened in 1936


Cost $49 million


Created lake mead - 180km reservoir


Supplies water to 8 million people


Lake is runniny out of water


2020 - could fall below useable levels


Sahel

Climate has natural wet and dry seasons


Cyclical droughts


Rainfall is high intensity


2006 - torrential rain affected 1000s people


Past 3 decades - chronic food and water shortages

Dhaka - Bangladesh

Slum community


No safe water / toilets


Help from organisation - prodiplan


6 deep tube wells


People are no longer continually ill


People run facilities themselves


Project helped move people out of poverty

Three Gorges Dam

$26 billion


Completed in 2012


175m concrete dam


Reservoir 600km long


34 hydro electric generators


632km2 of land inundated


1.3 people relocated