Name That Dam
This massive Turkish dam on the Euphrates River is named after the founder of modern Turkey.
What is the Atatürk Dam?
The Atatürk Dam is located on this major river.
What is the Euphrates River?
Dams produce this renewable form of electricity by moving water through turbines.
What is hydroelectric power?
A dam can reduce the amount of this material carried downstream that naturally fertilizes farmland.
What is sediment?
Turkey controls the upper portions of the Tigris and Euphrates, making it this type of country compared with Syria and Iraq.
What is an upstream country?
Located on the Tigris River, this is the largest dam in Iraq.
What is the Mosul Dam?
The Mosul Dam is built on this river.
What is the Tigris River?
By storing water for farms, dams provide this major agricultural benefit.
What is irrigation?
When a reservoir fills, people living in the flooded area may be forced to do this.
What is relocate or become displaced?
Syria and Iraq often worry that Turkish dams could reduce this downstream resource.
What is water or river flow?
This Syrian dam created Lake Assad on the Euphrates River.
What is the Tabqa Dam?
The Tigris and Euphrates eventually come together in Iraq to form this waterway.
What is the Shatt al-Arab?
Holding back large amounts of water during periods of heavy rainfall can reduce this natural disaster downstream.
What is flooding?
Less freshwater reaching downstream regions can cause an increase in this problem, where water or soil becomes too salty.
What is salinization?
Controlling how much water is released from a dam can give an upstream country this kind of advantage.
What is political or geopolitical leverage?
This controversial Turkish dam on the Tigris flooded parts of the ancient town of Hasankeyf.
What is the Ilısu Dam?
Many major Iranian dams are built along this important river.
What is the Karun River?
Reservoirs can provide cities with a more reliable supply of this essential resource.
What is freshwater?
Mosul Dam requires constant maintenance because some of the rock beneath it can do this when exposed to water.
What is dissolve?
Countries can reduce dam disputes by creating treaties that establish rules for sharing this resource.
What is water?
This Iranian hydroelectric dam is one of several major dams built along the Karun River.
What is the Karun III Dam?
Turkey is upstream of Syria and Iraq on both of these internationally important rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Project uses dams to increase electricity production and expand this activity across dry farmland.
What is irrigated agriculture?
Blocking fish movement, changing water temperature, and altering river flow are examples of these consequences.
What are environmental or ecological impacts?
Population growth, drought, and climate change can worsen this condition in which available water cannot meet demand.
What is water scarcity?