fw.4.2 Multipurpose dams
Content
- Geographic inquiry and concept(s)
- Future possibilities for management intervention in drainage basins
- Geographic knowledge and understanding
- Increased dam building for multipurpose water schemes, and their costs and benefits
- Case study or detailed examples
- Case study of contemporary dam building expansion in one major drainage basin
- Aims of this lesson
- To have knowledge of why there is a need to increase the number of dams found within a drainage basin.
- To have an understanding of the benefits and problems created by increased dam building.
- To have knowledge of a specific drainage basin where the building of dams is increasing.
Base knowledge and understanding
News article
Key terms
- Multipurpose dams
- Combines two or more functions of traditional single-purpose dams into one hydro infrastructure project. A multipurpose dam may combine storing and supplying water for irrigation, industry and human consumption with other uses such as flood control, power generation, navigation, run-off storage and water discharge regulation.
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Review
- Outline one social consequence of large-scale dam construction. [2]
- Explain one economic benefit and one environmental cost of a multipurpose dam scheme. [4]
- Examine how increased dam building can create both opportunities and challenges for communities within a drainage basin. [10]