Government programmes that developed a whole river basin for power and water, including the Columbia Basin Project in Washington State, which built an irrigation network around the Grand Coulee Dam, and the Volta River Project in Ghana, which built the Akosombo Dam. A project belongs here when its cited article describes a river basin scheme that combines water supply with hydroelectric power. It excludes single dam projects, which are filed under hydroelectric dams.
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Columbia Basin Project (Wikipedia)
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The Columbia Basin Project (or CBP) in Central Washington, United States, is the irrigation network that the Grand Coulee Dam makes possible.
Akosombo Dam (Wikipedia)
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The Akosombo Dam, also known as the Volta Dam, is a hydroelectric dam on the Volta River in southeastern Ghana in the Akosombo gorge and part of the Volta River Authority.
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