Design and Construction of DAMS, Reservoirs, and Balancing Lakes

The general data presented in sections two and three gives an idea of the extreme diversity of the millions of very large or very small dams worldwide. Dam design and construction methods for the most usual types of large dams are presented and justified in section four. The possibility and usefulness of building as many dams in the 21st century as have been built in the 20th is analyzed in section six.