What is a Dam?
What is a dam? How is it useful to us?
What is a Dam?
The dam is a big, solid, strong structure that is made to stop or restrict the flow of surface water of Huge rivers or underground streams. They work as a barrier. The dam not only suppresses floods but also provides water as per the requirements of the people for their activities, which require a huge amount of water, like irrigation, human consumption in a big area, industrial use, Aquaculture, and navigability. These dams are also created for the purpose to create the hydro energy so that electricity can also be produced and these damn can work as the barriers as well. Dams are also used to collect or store water, which can be distributed between the different regions of an area when it is required. Dams mainly serve the primary purpose of retaining water while other structures such as floodgates, early wheeze, also known as dykes are used to manage or prevent water flow into specific land region. Mostly, they are not used to store water or to create hydropower energy from it.
Dams are very useful in our day-to-day life as well as in the lives of people who suffer from the problem of waterproblem in their area. Water collected in the lakes can be used afterwards when it is required in an emergency or when water is not supplied to the region. It works as a reservoir for drinking water, and it can also be supplied to the farms through kennels pipeline and from the narrow streams for the purpose of irrigation.
The hydropower energy that is created from this collected water can be used to turn a mill to grind wheat, it is also used to turn the Blades of a turbine, to generate electrical power in emergencies, and in general as well.
When there is a flood, these dams can serve as a lifesaver to the flood-prone areas. The dams can protect the whole city or town from the downstream of the flooded rivers.
– Written By Aruja
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