NEVER FIND IN: Top 5 World's Dams

dam construction is built to withstand the rate of water into reservoirs, lakes, or recreation. Often dams are also used to bring water to a hydropower. Most of the dam also has a section called the floodgates to dispose of unwanted water in stages or continuous.

Dam (dam) and weir (weir) is actually a different structure.

Weir (weir) is headed lower dam structure (lowhead dam), which serves to raise the water level, usually found in the river. River water surface is raised will melimpas through peak / summit weir (overflow).

Can be used as a measure of the speed of the water flow in the canal / river and could also be a driving force in the traditional pengilingan European countries. In a country with a fairly large river and torrential flow, a series of dams can be operated form a water transport system. In Indonesia, the dam can be used for irrigation for example, when the river water level is lower than the face of the land that would diairi.Nah tinggi2 that there are 5 dams in the world are:

I started from the lowest

5. dam Mica in Kanada (242m)