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Essay - Effects of Dam Building
Grade 10 Geography
Units 12, 13, 14
Many people have already dammed a small stream using sticks and mud by
the time they become adults. Humans have used dams since early
civilization, because four-thousand years ago they became aware that
floods and droughts affected their well-being and so they began to build
dams to protect themselves from these effects.1 The basic principles of
dams still apply today as they did before; a dam must prevent water from
being passed. Since then, people have been continuing to build and perfect
these structures,....
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