Large dam programmes on Asian and African rivers that were built to make electricity and control water, including the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze, the Aswan High Dam on the Nile, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the Tarbela Dam in Pakistan and the Volta River project in Ghana. A project belongs here when its cited article places the dam in Asia or Africa. It excludes dam projects in the Americas.
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Three Gorges Dam (Wikipedia)
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The Three Gorges Dam, officially known as Yangtze River Three Gorges Water Conservancy Project is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near Sandouping in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges.
Aswan High Dam (Wikipedia)
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The Aswan High Dam, often called simply Aswan Dam, was built between 1960 and 1970 across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt.
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Wikipedia)
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The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD or TaIHiGe; Amharic: ታላቁ የኢትዮጵያ ሕዳሴ ግድብ, romanized: Tālāqu ye-Ītyōppyā Hidāsē Gidib, Tigrinya: ግድብ ሕዳሰ ኢትዮጵያ, Oromo: Hidha Guddicha Haaromsa Itoophiyaa), formerly known as the Millennium Dam and sometimes referred to as the Hidase Dam (Amharic: ሕዳሴ ግድብ, romanized: Hidāsē Gidib, Oromo: Hidha Hidāsē), is a gravity dam on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia.
Tarbela Dam (Wikipedia)
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Tarbela Dam (Pashto: د توربېلې بند, Hindko: تربیلا بند) is an earth-filled dam on the Indus River in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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