EFFECT OF IRRIGATION AND LARGE DAMS ON THE BURDEN OF ...

large dams (i.e., defined as impoundments more than 15 meters high or storing more than 3 million m3 of water) and 800,000 small dams have been built worldwide. The ma-jority of the large dams serve irrigation purposes. Most of the large dams were constructed after 1950, during the post-war development era, when large-scale infrastructures were re- ................
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