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19 Cards in this Set
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Act as a flood control (Nagarjuna Sugar dam) |
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Hydroelectricity can be created and supplied to local people with cheap and renewable energy (Hoover dam) |
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Create employment for construction and maintenance (Three Gorges Dam) |
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Lake behind offers leisure activities, swimming, sailing (W.A.C Bennett dam) |
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Key source of water and large water source (Aswan dam) |
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Flooding of upstream areas for construction (Ilisu dam) |
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Displacement of people upstream and downstream leading to conflict of religions and tribes (Three Gorges Dam) |
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Expensive to maintain and construct (Three Gorges Dam) |
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Dehydration of downstream ecosystems and destruction of farmland (Ilisu dam) |
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Rare geophysical increase. Depress the surface frequency of earthquakes (Hoover dam) |
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Alter water table increasing deposits of salts and minerals (Aswan dam) |
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Removed nutrients can decrease fish stocks (Govet dam) |
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Hoover dam |
Produces 4.2TWh/year (terawatts an hour)(15% of LA's energy ) |
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Hoover dam |
Induced 5 / 9 earthquakes in the 1980's, causing damage |
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Three Gorges dam |
Employs a total of 26,000 Chinese |
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Three Gorges dam |
Cost $22.5 billion |
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Three Gorges dam |
Displaced 1.2 million people, costing $1.5 billion to relocate them |
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Ilisu dam |
Flood 12,000 year old ottoman Arab fortress of Hasankeyf |
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Ilisu dam |
A farmer committed suicide after his farm was lost to dehydration |
