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• - Guide from Desert USA to the deepest dam in the world, built in the 1930s on the Colorado River. Includes history, photographs and visitor information.
  
• - Sunset Cities gives construction facts and figures, history, photographs and visitor information on this giant dam built in the US Depression years.
  
• - Includes the history of the 1953 flooding in The Netherlands and series of dams created to prevent this from happening again.
  
• - Gujarat State considers a proposed tidal power dam at the Gulf of Khambhat, India. Includes history, benefits and technical features.
  
• - The dam on the Columbia river is the largest concrete structure in the United States. Charles Hubbard provides history, photographs and bibliography.
  
• - Historical overview of this dam built in 1920 and designed by Joseph Barlow Lippincott (1864-1942) in the Pacific Southwest, from the United States Department of Agriculture.
  
• - Professional organization advancing the technology of dam engineering and safety; fostering socially and environmentally responsible water resources projects; and promoting awareness of the benefits of dams. Previously known as United States Committee on
  
• - Donald Jackson of the History Department, Lafayette College, describes his book on John S. Eastwood and the control of water in the American West. Excerpts and illustrations.