The Effects of Dam Building

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Grade 10 Geography
Units 12, 13, 14
Essay - Effects of Dam Building
By:Brenden Kilmartin
Many people have already dammed a small stream using sticks and mud by the
time they become adults. Humans have used dams since early civilization,
because four-thousand years ago they became aware that floods and droughts
affected their well-being and so they began to build dams to protect
themselves from these effects.1 The basic principles of dams still apply today
as they did before; a dam must prevent water from being passed. Since t…