Or take the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, an unmitigated disaster, according to ecologists.
It has now put a break in the dam to control drainage around the site.
During the Great Depression, America built the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge.
The valves from the dam system are being shut down from Friday until Monday.
My platoon would assault the main building and clear miles of tunnels underneath the dam.
But that is a third of the area that the original dam would have inundated.
India's dam will divert some of the river down a 22km (14-mile) mountain tunnel to turbines.
The last was a home run which broke the dam and led to the victory!
The company said 1, 400 properties will have to be expropriated to build the dam.
They pointed out that this dam was actually built in the 1980s under Saddam Hussein.
Do they seem concerned that this dam may collapse and flood many large cities?
It said it would delay plans to expand its Olympic Dam mine in Australia.
As it now stands, it is unlikely this dam will be constructed on schedule.
Instead, he threw in his lot with the anti-dam lobby and was duly re-elected.
The central government of Vietnam plans to build a dam nearby to generate electricity.
Rotherham Borough Council says the risk that the Ulley dam could be breached has "significantly reduced".
Following several campaigns, some European financial backers have withdrawn their support for the dam.
And it is along these lines that the campaign to stop the Yusufeli dam continues.
One resident we interviewed said he had first heard talk of a dam forty years ago.
We built the transcontinental railroad, the Interstate Highway System, the Hoover Dam, Grand Central Station.
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The government wants this dam as bad as some indigenous groups and nearby residents do not.
That overtakes the second-place Three Gorges Dam, which cost a mere 203.9 billion yuan.
Since 2009, Cameron has been involved in efforts to derail approval of the dam.
Residents downstream from a dam on the Tangipahoa River have been ordered to evacuate Thursday afternoon.
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There are also still environmental issues, albeit much less drastic than with a traditional dam.
Mr Zeidan thanked the Egyptian authorities for their "judicial co-operation" over Mr Gaddaf al-Dam.
Activists and opposition groups said fighters were guarding the dam's entrances and exits in Raqa province.
Reports said the dam on the Euphrates River in the country's north was still operational.
It is also building a dam and handing out scholarships to young Afghan students.
No tribal lands will be flooded to build the dam, if it indeed gets built.
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