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Victoria Dam (Sinhala: වික්ටෝරියා වේල්ල Viktoriya Vella) is an arch dam located 130 mi (209 km) upstream of the Mahaweli River's mouth and 4 mi (6 km) from Teldeniya. It is named in honour of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
9 maj 2023 · The ‘Three Gorges’, the world’s biggest dam on the Yangtze River in central China, which forced the relocation of more than 1.4 million people, reflects the magnitude and the capacity of Chinese engineering and construction.
24 lip 2023 · July 24, 2023 09:55 JST. Drought in China dried up parts of the Yangtze river last year - but the largest water transfer apparatus ever built still drew from it to supply Beijing's needs. More...
The Upper Kotmale Dam (also known as the Upper Kotmale Hydropower Project, or UKHP) is located in Talawakele, within the Nuwara Eliya District, in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. The dam feeds the third largest hydroelectric power station in the country.
The objectives of the Dam Safety and Water Resources Planning Project in Sri Lanka are to, (i) establish long-term sustainable arrangements for operation and maintenance of large dams, and (ii) improve water resources planning.
This would be achieved through three main project components: (i) improving dam safety and operational efficiency; (ii) upgrading and modernizing the existing hydro-meteorological information systems; and, (iii) providing technical assistance for developing integrated water resources plans for selected river basins.
21 lis 2022 · The CFC Sri Lanka team visited the Victoria Power Plant, the tallest Dam in Sri Lanka, which supports a 210 MW power station, the largest hydroelectric power station in the country. We interviewed Mr Udith Ekanayake, a civil engineer at Mahaweli Authority of Sri Lanka, about the possible environmental impacts of this massive Dam.
