Ghana long ago dammed the River Volta, Egypt the Nile, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique the Zambezi.
That the park would be closed, the waterfall dammed to increase flows and so on.
Thailand, too, has dammed the main tributaries that flow across its territory.
As well as being used to generate hydroelectricity, the dammed water was also used to irrigate three crops a year instead of just one.
The government dammed some of the fiscal drains, cracking down on free-lending state banks and the issue of state and municipal bonds, for example.
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Just about every river that can be effectively dammed, has been.
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But nowhere are the changes more apparent than along the Chagres River itself, dammed in 1913 to form Gatun Lake, as part of the Panama Canal project.
Nobody denies that the revolution saw off the last British occupation forces, nationalised the Suez Canal, dammed the unruly Nile, and launched massive programmes to reclaim the desert for farming.
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Undamming the Elwha River is expected to boost its salmon population from 3, 000 to 400, 000, which will attract bears, eagles and other wildlife that thrived before the river was dammed in 1914.
It will be hard, James, but you come from sturdy, peasant stock, men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads, and, in the teeth of the most terrifying odds, achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity.
Part of the somewhat neglected southern stretch of Kafue National Park, though, is dominated by Lake Itezhi-Tezhi, an inland sea created by the dammed Kafue River that has given rise to superbly scenic, land- and water-based wildlife-watching experiences.
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