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.

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