Top Ten Biggest Dams in Asia
The Ten Biggest Dams in Asia Human’s never ending need of water dates back from the start of our existence. In the earlier days our ancestors have always been relying on the naturally occurring dams found in nature. But with the rapid increase of population, these natural dams are now very insufficient in providing enough water to supply the peoples demand for water. With a problem comes a solution, our early ancestors needed to find a more efficient way of getting and storing water for their needs. So instead of relying on nature built dams, they have decided to create one of their own which they would have easy access and would supply them water if they needed it. They have started on creating these fairly small dam, just enough to supply their families with clean water all throughout the year. The earliest dam that was recorded is around nine meters high and has a width of one meter and was supported by a fifty meter wide earth rampart. This is located in Jawa, Jordan a hundred kilometers northwest of its capital Amman. Today, due to the huge demands of water our engineers have to build these couple of colossal size dams. And because of our technology, we don’t just create them for water supply we harness its power to have electricity and improve our day to day living, use it for irrigation, and a whole bunch of stuffs. There a lots of huge dams that were created all around the world but in this paper I shall give you The Ten Biggest Dams in all of Asia. The tenth biggest dams in Asia is called Nagarjuna Sagar Dam this is the biggest masonry dam built in the Krishna River in India. It is four hundred ninety feet high and sixteen kilometers long that has a twenty-six gate with a high of forty-five feet and forty-two feet in width. The total capacity of the reservoir is eleven thousand four hundred seventy- two million cubic meters which is the world's largest man-made lake. Due to the size of this dam the need more than a couple feet of concrete as a