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| Dam | Location | Type | Height in feet | Height in meters | ||||
| Rogun | Tajikistan | Earth-fill/Rock-fill | … | |||||
| Nurek | Tajikistan | Earth-fill | ||||||
| Grand Dixence | Switzerland | Gravity | … | |||||
| Inguri | Georgia | Arch | ||||||
| Chicoasen | Mexico | Rock-fill | ||||||
| Tehri | India | Earth-fill/Rock-fill | … | |||||
| Kishau | India | Earth-fill/Rock-fill | ||||||
| Sayano-Shushensk | … | Arch | … | |||||
| Guavio | Colombia | Rock-fill | ||||||
| II … (Based on volume of dam structure) | ||||||||
| Dam | Location | Type | Volume in cubic yards | Volume in cubic meters | ||||
| Chapeton | Argentina | Earth-fill/ Gravity | 387,400,000 | 296,200,000 | ||||
| Pati | Argentina | Earth-fill/ Gravity | … | 238,100,000 | ||||
| Tarbela | Pakistan | Earth-fill/Rock-fill | 194,200,000 | 148,500,000 | ||||
| Fort Peck | United States | Earth-fill | 125,600,000 | … | ||||
| Lower Usuma | Nigeria | Earth-fill | 121,600,000 | 93,000,000 | ||||
| Cipasang | Indonesia | Earth-fill/Rock-fill | 117,800,000 | … | ||||
| Atatürk | Turkey | Rock-fill | 111,200,000 | 85,000,000 | ||||
| Rogun | … | Earth-fill/Rock-fill | … | 71,300,000 | ||||
| Guri | Venezuela | Rock-fill/ Gravity | 92,720,000 | 70,889,000 | ||||
Source: World Book
a) Answer the following questions.
1. Which of these two tables depicts the largest dams, the highest dams?
2. What dam is the largest in the world?
3. What is its volume in cubic meters?
4. Where is it situated? What is its kind?
5. What dam is the highest in the world?
6. Where is it situated?
7. What is its height in meters?
8. What dam is considered to be the highest and at the same time one of the largest?
9. How many embankment dams are listed in the table?
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10. How many masonry dams are listed in the table?
11. Can the dam be the highest as well as the largest in the world?
12. Why are there different dams in these two tables? (Try to explain)
b) Compare the following dams.
Model: Rogun/ Nurec - Rogun dam in Tajikistan is higher than Nurec dam.
1) Tehri/Sayano-Shushensk. 2) Guri/Lower Usuma. 3) Guavio/Grand Dixence. 4) Cipasang/Pati. 5) Atatürk/Tarbela.
c) Try to find any information about any mentioned in the table dam.
