Engineers Pour Concrete

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What did the dams (Hoover Dam, Grand Coulee Dam, etc.) become a symbol of in the postwar world?

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Modernism, Economic development, and Mankind's control over nature

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Why did Daniel Beard, the retired commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, begin advocating against the building of dams?

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It ruined fisheries and increased the risk of flooding

Front

What is known as the first Super Dam in the United States?

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Hoover Dam

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What percentage of manmade methane emissions are estimated to come from reservoirs?

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7%

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What environmental issue is associated with reservoirs?

Back

Methane emissions greater than a coal power plant

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What is one of the reasons why reservoirs continue to produce methane even as they age?

Back

The vegetation continuously flows in from rivers

Front

Which of the following reservoirs loses a tenth of its river’s flow to evaporation? Lake Mead, Elephant Butte, Lake Powell, Kariba Dam

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Lake Powell

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What was the issue with the Hirakud Dam in India?

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It caused more floods instead of preventing them

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Why do governments often fail to address dam failures?

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They prioritize building new dams over maintaining old ones, they lack proper flood monitoring systems, they underestimate climate change’s effects.