What is the Itaipu Dam?
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yes... and there's pictures for u as well... dats if u need pics!!! and info!!
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It is not true statement:One river in China actually goes up stream,instead of downstream.!!!\nlooba
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The oldest dam still in use is in Orontes in Syria, and was built in 1300 BC.\n\n\ntype dam in search query in the link below.
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Hoover Dam. The Hoover Institution. The Hoover Commission. The Hoover Tower at Stanford University.
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The Grand Coulee Dam. See http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001336.html
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The seventeen main turbine-generator combinations at this powerhouse generate a maximum of 2,074 megawatts of hydroelectric power.\n\nGenerators at the Dam's Hoover Powerplant began to transmit electricity from the Colorado River a distance of 266 miles (364 km) to Los Angeles, California on October 26, 1936.\n\nFor more details see the link below.
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hişinău, formerly known as Kishinev, is the capital city and industrial and commercial centre of the Republic of Moldova. It is also the largest city of Moldova. It is located in the centre of the country, on the river Bîc. Economically, the city is by far the most prosperous in Moldova and is one of the main industrial centres and transportation hubs of the region. As the most important city in Moldova, Chişinău has a broad range of educational facilities. Additionally, the city has among the highest proportion of green spaces of any major city in Europe-.
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Here are some web sites that might help:\n\nhttp://www.sunsetcities.com/hoover-dam.html\nhttp://www.water-ed.org/coloradoriver.asp\nhttp://ag.arizona.edu/AZWATER/arroyo/101comm.html\nhttp://www.kaibab.org/misc/gc_coriv.htm
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The Chinese Wall.\n\nIf this is the best answer, please vote it the best answer. Thanks!
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try pasig river in the philippines
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There is a plant that floats on the Amazon River.  It's flower is about 6 feet in diameter.  It's some variation of water lily if I'm not mistaken.
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At 5464 km, China's Huáng Hé (or Yellow River) is the second longest river in China after the Yangtze, and the fifth longest in the world. \n\nIt originates in the Bayankala Mountains in Qinghai Province in western China and flows through nine provinces of China before it finally empties into the Bohai Sea. \n\nThe middle of the Yellow River passes through Loess Plateau and produces substantial erosion. The large amount of mud and sand discharged into the river makes it the most sediment-laden river in the world--hence its name.\n\n~~\nProblems\n\n1.  Pollution\n\nThere are some problems facing this river, though, big problems.  For instance, it is extremely polluted.  Recently, China News Service reported sources from the Yellow River Conservancy Commission as saying that nearly four-fifths of the Yellow River is polluted.\n\nAccording to water quality monitoring initiated in 1975, 60 percent of its water in 1980s was designated category 3 or above on a 5-point scale, meaning it qualified for drinking, fisheries and swimming. By the end of 1990s, this fell to 40 percent.\n\nIn March 2005, a government report said that over 72 percent of the river's water had dropped below category 3. Experts said that the rapid increase in sewage, uncontrolled discharge of waste water and the misuse of fertilizer have all worsened the situation.\n\n2.  Decreased water flow\n\nAdditionally, there is much less water flowing into the Yellow River today then there used to be. Qinghai Province is both the origin and source of more then half (59.2 percent) of the water that flows down the Yellow River. Recent data shows that the quantity of water from this area fell by almost 25% percent over the past decade. The dams at the Longyang Gorge dam and the Liujia Gorge dam have fallen to their lowest level ever. \n\nExperts say that the reason for the drying up of the sources of water for the upper reaches of the Yellow River is a steady deterioration in the ecology of the region. The average elevation for the Qinghai Province region drained by the Yellow River is over 3000 meters. That high, the environment is fragile and natural disasters are frequent. Once the ecology of the area has been damaged, it is very difficult for it to be restored. \n\nFor the last decade or more extremely inadequate level of investment in the environment, very weak popular awareness of environmental issues, rapid and heedless development of the region as well as overgrazing have all contributed to a loss of soil over a wide area, the deterioration of the grassland, desertification of the land, and a decline in the land's capacity to conserve water.\n\n3. Reduced glacier size due to global warming\n\nFinally, global warming is reducing the size of the glaciers that feed the river. Global warming will dry out the source of the Yellow River, threatening water supplies to 120 million people, an environmental group said Monday.\n\nIn an October 2005 study commissioned by Greenpeace, scientists said global warming was melting glaciers which in turn was breaking up and drying out the land, leaving lakes and rivers without water.\n\n"Climate change is wreaking havoc at the birthplace of China's mother river," a Greenpeace researcher said in China after releasing the study.\n\nThe Tibetan Plateau, known as the "roof of the world" and the source of both the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers -- China's two longest --, has seen an overall temperature rise of nearly one degree Celsius during the past 30 years, the study by scientists said. "The higher the altitude, the faster the temperature rises," it said.\n\nThe rise in temperature has resulted in the glacier area in the region decreasing in size by 17 percent in 2000 compared with its size in 1966.\n\nIn the last 30 years, the shrinkage rate of the glacier area is 10 times faster than that of the previous 300 years, the report said.\n\n"From here it is a domino effect that harms the f
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Brazil,Columbia,Peru,and Bolivia.\nhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/Amazon_river_basin.png\nThe upper amazon comprises a series of major river systems in Peru that flow north and south into the Marañón and Amazon. Among others, these include the following rivers: Morona; Pastaza; Nucuray; Urituyacu; Chambira; Tigre; Nanay; Napo; Huallaga; and Ucayali. Originating in the snow-crested Andes high above Lake Lauricocha in central Peru, the headstream of the Marañón River rises in the glaciers in what is known as the Nevado de Yarupa. Rushing through waterfalls and gorges in an area of the high jungle called the pongos, the Marañón River flows about 1,000 miles from west-central to northeast Peru before it combines with the Ucayali River, just below the provincial town of Nauta, to form the mighty Amazon River. The primary tributaries of the Marañón River are--from south to north--the Crisnejas, Chamayo, Urtcubamba, Cenepa, Santiago, Moroña, Pastaza, Huallaga, and Tiger Rivers (Cavero-Egusquiza 1941:49-51).\nThe most distant source of the Amazon has only recently been firmly established as a glacial stream on a snowcapped 5,597 metre (18,363 ft) peak called Nevado Mismi [3] in the Peruvian Andes, roughly 160 km west of Lake Titicaca and 700 km S.E. of Lima. The mountain was first suggested as the source in 1971 but this was not confirmed until 2001. The waters from Nevado Mismi flow into the Río Apurímac which is a tributary of the Ucayali which later joins the Marañón to form the Amazon proper. Formally, though, the union of the Ucayali and the Marañón form the Río Amazonas, which changes its name to Solimões on the triple frontier between Peru, Colombia and Brazil, and later changes its name back to the Amazon only after it meets the Rio Negro near Manaus.\nAfter the confluence of Río Apurímac and Ucayali, the river leaves Andean terrain and is instead surrounded by flood plain. From this point to the Marañón, some 1,600 km (1,000 mi), the forested banks are just out of water, and are inundated long before the river attains its maximum flood-line. The low river banks are interrupted by only a few hills, and the river enters the enormous Amazon Rainforest.\nThe river systems and flood plains in Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela whose waters drain into the Solimões and its tributaries are called the "Upper Amazon".
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The Aswan High Dam is 3,600 m in length, 980 m wide at the base, 40 m wide at the crest and 111 m tall. It contains 43 million m³ of material. At maximum, 11,000 m³ of water can pass through the dam every second. There are further emergency spillways for an extra 5000 m³ per second and the Toshka Canal links the reservoir to the Toshka Depression. The reservoir, named Lake Nasser, is 550 km long and 35 km at its widest with a surface area of 5,250 km² and holds 132 km³.\n\nThe dam powers twelve generators each rated at 175 megawatts, producing a hydroelectric output of 2.1 gigawatts. Power generation began in 1967. When the dam first reached peak output it produced around half of Egypt's entire electricity production (about 15% by 1998) and allowed for the connection of most Egyptian villages to electricity for the first time. The effects of dangerous floods in 1964 and 1973 and of threatening droughts in 1972–73 and 1983–84 were mitigated. A new fishing industry has been created around Lake Nasser, though it is struggling due to its distance from any significant markets.\n\n\nYou can see some of the details in the following link
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It's a city in China, therefore it is a part of China. I think it use to be a portuguese colony but it has been handed over to china.
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It's in Southern Portugal in the Guadiana valley within the Nature Reserve of the Guadiana river \n\nPULO DO LOBO\n\nIn its long passage since lands of Spain, the river Guadiana is come close to Mértola and Beja. It is between these two localities, the 6 quilómetros of Serpa, inside of the perimeter of the Natural Park of the Valley of the Guadiana, that the nature in provides one to them of its more beautiful espectáculos.\n\n A passage the foot (it does not have access for cars) for the flaring scenes that the presence of waters leaves to guess takes the visitor the open landscapes and solarengas, in a stroll always folloied by the grumble of the river.\n\nAt the point where the bed becomes narrow, Nature created a natural "bridge" that links the two banks; after the "bridge", there is an enormous waterfall about 130 metres (4,200 ft) high; then the river becomes calm again as it flows between the sudden and generous banks known as Pulo do Lobo ("Wolf´s Leap").
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Nearly 500 rivers lace Panama's rugged landscape. Mostly unnavigable, many originate as swift highland streams, meander in valleys, and form coastal deltas. However, the Río Chepo and the Río Chagres are sources of hydroelectric power. \n\nThe Río Chagres is one of the longest and most vital of the approximately 150 rivers that flow into the Caribbean. Part of this river was dammed to create Gatun Lake, which forms a major part of the transit route between the locks near each end of the canal. Both Gatun Lake and Madden Lake (also filled with water from the Río Chagres) provide hydroelectricity for the area of the former Canal Zone. \n\nThe Río Chepo, another major source of hydroelectric power, is one of the more than 300 rivers emptying into the Pacific. These Pacific-oriented rivers are longer and slower running than those of the Caribbean side. Their basins are also more extensive. One of the longest is the Río Tuira, which flows into the Golfo de San Miguel and is the nation's only river navigable by larger vessels