Encyclopedia > Reservoir

Article Content

Reservoir

A reservoir is an artificial lake created by flooding land behind a dam. Some of the world's largest lakes are reservoirs.

Surveyors have to find river valleys which are deep and narrow; the valley sides can then act as natural walls. The best place for building a dam has to be determined. If necessary, humans have to be rehoused and/or historic sites have to be moved, e.g. the temples of Abu Simbel[?] before the construction of the Aswan Dam, creating Lake Nasser[?].

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Sanskrit language

... earliest of the Vedas, the R^igveda, was composed in the middle of the second millennium BC. The Vedic form survived until the middle of the first millennium BC. Around ...