Why do people build dams? See International Commission on Large Dams
PowerPoint showing Hydrological changes resulting from Dam construction
Is building dams a sustainable management strategy? – BBC News
- To examine the costs and benefits of dams and reservoirs as part of multi-purpose schemes.
Case Study: Costs and benefits of a multi-purpose scheme – The Three Gorges Dam, Yangtze River, China.
Pros & Cons of Dams – Highlights some purposes of dams and the problems that can result.
Info on the dam from Internationalrivers.org
Info from African water.org
Problems of the dam from phys.org
National Geographic – China’s Three Gorges Dam, by the Numbers
More from Wikipedia, the BBC, The Guardian from 2003, and again in 2011, Scientific American, and in photos from The Huffington Post, and from Jason Munster
See below for videos relating to the dam and reservoir.
Other Dam case studies of interest
Aswan High Dam in Egypt from wikipedia
Study of Aswan Dam from the University of Michigan
Case_Study_Kariba_Dam – November_2000
Exam style question
Evaluate the use of a named dam as part of a located multi-purpose scheme. [10 Marks]