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Mosul Dam (Arabic: سد الموصل), formerly known as Saddam Dam (سد صدام), is the largest dam in Iraq. It is located on the Tigris river in the western governorate of Nineveh, upstream of the city of Mosul. The dam serves to generate hydroelectricity and provide water for downstream irrigation.
- 25 January 1981; 42 years ago
- 7 July 1986; 37 years ago
- US$1.5 billion
25 mag 2020 · Mosul Dam is an earth fill dam, with a storage capacity of 11.11 km 3 constructed on highly karstified gypsum beds alternating with marl and limestone. After impounding in 1986, seepage locations were recognized. The dam situation now indicates that it is in a state of extreme relative risk.
- Nadhir Al-Ansari, Nasrat Adamo, Sven Knutsson, Jan Laue, Varoujan Sissakian
- 2020
La diga di Mosul, precedentemente conosciuta come diga di Saddam, è la più grande diga dell' Iraq e la quarta di tutto il Medio Oriente. Si trova sul fiume Tigri, nel governatorato occidentale di Ninawa, a nord della città di Mosul. [1] Indice. 1 Dati tecnici. 2 Importanza strategica. 3 Studi scientifici. 4 Note. 5 Altri progetti.
15 set 2023 · Iraq's Mosul Dam, shown here in September 2016, has been called the world's "most dangerous" dam. Engineers predict that a structural failure would result in the inundation of the city of...
18 ago 2014 · By Alex Milner. BBC News. Whoever controls the Mosul Dam, the largest in Iraq, controls most of the country's water and power resource. When Saddam Hussein built the dam three decades ago, it...
4 mar 2021 · Mosul Dam: Effectiveness and Threats. Comparing the Primary Functions of the Mosul Dam to the Danger of Collapse. Zach Kingsbury & Emily Morgan. March 4, 2021. Our project looks into the various effects--economic, political, agricultural or public health-related, for example--dams have on their surrounding regions.
9 feb 2016 · BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s Mosul Dam has long been branded the world’s most dangerous dam, at risk of collapsing and sending water crashing over millions of people. That prospect is even greater than was previously believed after the Islamic State group captured the dam briefly in 2014, according to a new report by U.S. Army engineers.
