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fw.4.2 Contemporary dam building for multipurpose water schemes

🌍 Geographical knowledge and understanding

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• Case study of contemporary dam building expansion in one major drainage basin </aside>

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🎯 Context

✏ Multipurpose dams

Multipurpose Dams | Climate Technology Centre & Network

1. What is a multipurpose dam?

2. List two environmental benefits of multipurpose dams.

3. List two socioeconomic benefits of multipurpose dams.

✏ The Nile Drainage Basin

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Total flows of the Nile [Source]

1. What is the flow of the Nile, in billion cubic metres per year, of the tributary upon which the GERD is being built?

2. Name at least two other dams in the Nile drainage basin, and which country they are in.

✏ The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam - GERD - [case study]

🧠 NotebookLM→

1. Within which drainage basin is the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam?

2. Give at least three key dates related to this contemporary dam-building expansion.

3. How is the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam an example of a multipurpose water scheme? Give examples!

4. Complete these two columns of notes - on the costs and benefits of the GERD→