Or take the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, an unmitigated disaster, according to ecologists.
The most notable casualty is the massive hydro-electric Bakun Dam in East Malaysia's Sarawak state.
But when it comes to the monstrous Belo Monte dam in Para state, what else is new?
The new parliament building in Kabul and a new dam in Herat should be ready by next year.
The first phase of the project has been completed with the construction of the Katse dam in Lesotho.
The man, named only as Mr Lee, works for a Chinese consortium that is building a dam in Kashmir.
And then came yet another problem with the troubled Bakun dam in Sarawak.
The crime scene is the overlook above the Mulholland Dam in Los Angeles.
Dam999 revolves around a dilapidated dam in India which was built in 1895.
The failure in January 2000 of the Baia Mare dam in Romania contaminated the drinking water of 2.5m people.
China Eximbank cancelled a loan for a dam in Gabon on environmental grounds.
Before the construction of the Pak Moon dam in Ubon Ratchathani province, Thailand, the waterway contained over 250 species of fish.
The construction of the Gezhouba dam in 1981 on the Yangtze river also created a barrier to the migrating fish which further affected fish stocks.
An overflowing dam in the town of Zlatograd, southeast of Sofia, flooded the basements of several apartment buildings, the town's mayor told news agency Focus.
Tom Udall proudly lists the wilderness areas he has preserved and speaks of his father's decision not to build a dam in the Grand Canyon.
The infamous snail-darter, a three-inch fish that held up for years the construction of a federal dam in Tennessee, has happily survived the dam's arrival.
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They were also skeptical about considering a long-term deal after Ecuador expelled Brazilian multinational, Odebrecht, when the company had been building a dam in Ecuador.
Angelei is fighting to stop the construction of what would be the fourth largest dam in the world, the Gibe 3, which would destroy the lake.
However, Azar Jammine, chief economist at the Econometrix consultancy in Johannesburg, points out that South Africa also imports electricity from the huge Cahora Bassa dam in Mozambique.
But back in 1963, while the reservoir dam in Cwm Tryweryn was still under construction, it was the actions of three young men that were making the headlines.
Vale is a partner in 11 hydroelectric power stations currently operating in Brazil, and working on one new dam, known as the Estreito dam in Tocantins state in the north.
Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, for instance, is so proud of the new Merowe dam in the north of his country that he made it a selling-point in his recent election campaign.
The company is involved in two more dams, in Uganda and Laos, which are expected to receive World Bank funding, and it has helped build enormous reservoirs such as the Three Gorges Dam in China.
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As approximately 66% of the Mekong fish species are migratory their passage will be blocked by the dam in its current design which will seriously reduce the reproduction rate and overall fish populations downstream will be reduced.
Maroua, Cameroon (CNN) -- Cameroon authorities have found six more bodies in flood waters, bringing the number killed to as high as 40 in the wake of tropical downpours and the breaching of a dam in the west African country.
And at the time, it was the largest dam in the world. (Applause.) Even today, it stands as a testimony to American ingenuity, American imagination, the power of the American spirit -- a testimony to the notion we can do anything.
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The MTA took extensive measures before the storm to limit the amount of water flooding into tunnels, including by boarding up ventilation grates in low-lying stations, piling sandbags at station entrances, inflating a rubber dam in the Long Island Rail Road's West Side yards in Manhattan and hastily erecting a floodwall across the mouth of the No. 3 train tunnel near East 148th Street in Harlem.
Chile's Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a multi-billion dollar dam project in Patagonia, in the south of the country.
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It said it would delay plans to expand its Olympic Dam mine in Australia.
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