Beaver dams, yes. Hoover Dam, no.

We worked on the river dikes on Western Morava and Rasina.

Those dikes have burst. People wade through law all day long.

This port was constructed in a semicircle with two moles and a lighthouse at its mouth.

The irrigation was accomplished by the use of shaduf , canals, channels, dykes, weirs, and reservoirs.

The Beninese state has decided to prohibit the pumping of sea and sand for the construction of protective dikes.

Sabotage of dikes, canals, and reservoirs and deliberate flooding of rival states became a standard military tactic during the Warring States period.

Crops were destroyed, sea walls ruined, roads and railways damaged and a substantial number of people were injured or left homeless.

The rest of the country is mostly flat only in the extreme south of the country does the land rise to any significant extent, in the foothills of the Ardennes mountains.

The huge North Sea flood of early February 1953 caused the collapse of several dikes in the south west of the Netherlands more than 1,800 people drowned in the flood.

He holds a hoe, which has been interpreted as a ritual either involving the pharaoh ceremonially cutting the first furrow in the fields, or opening the dikes to flood them.

The footbridge and the river embankments will be built in the near future, but the art gallery was replaced with a cultural center MAKS, which currently is under construction.

The river above the junction with the Gunnison River, however, was known variously as the Bunkara River, the North Fork of the Grand River, the Blue River, and the Grand River.

In 1574, the Spanish army under Luis de Requeséns was repulsed from the Siege of Leiden after the Dutch broke the dykes, thus causing extensive flooding.

Consequently, agriculture and the economy were in shambles and rebellion broke out among the hundreds of thousands of peasants called upon to work on repairing the dykes of the Yellow River.

In ancient China, hydraulic engineering was highly developed, and engineers constructed massive canals with levees and dams to channel the flow of water for irrigation, as well as locks to allow ships to pass through.

On 9 June 1938, during the Second Sino Japanese War, Nationalist troops under Chiang Kai Shek broke the levees holding back the river near the village of Huayuankou in Henan, causing what has been called a war induced natural disaster .

Polders are areas of land, close to or below sea level that have been reclaimed from the sea, from which they are protected by dikes or, further inland, by fields that have been drained with canals.

During the reigns of Umar (634 44 CE) and Uthman ibn Affan (644 56) concerns of flooding caused the caliphs to bring in Christian engineers to build barrages in the low lying quarters and construct dykes and embankments to protect the area round the Kaaba.

A news report from the website O Democrata adds that the floods broke the protective dikes that served as a barrier and prevented the entry of salt water in the areas of fresh water where the base of the diet of Guinean was cultivated and already grown.

One of the best examples would be Shen Kuo (1031 1095), a polymath scientist and statesman who was the first to describe the magnetic needle compass used for navigation, discovered the concept of true north, improved the design of the astronomical gnomon, armillary sphere, sight tube, and clepsydra, and described the use of drydocks to repair boats.

The traditional Chinese response of building higher and higher levees along the banks sometimes also contributed to the severity of the floods When flood water did break through the levees, it could no longer drain back into the river bed as it would after a normal flood as the river bed was sometimes now higher than the surrounding countryside.