🇸🇪 Sweden · Hydraulic works
English Canal
The English Canal (Swedish: Engelska kanalen) was a planned and partially completed canal project that would connect the Swedish iron ore fields around Kiruna and Gällivare with Luleå and the Gulf of…
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🇸🇪 Sweden · Hydraulic works
The English Canal (Swedish: Engelska kanalen) was a planned and partially completed canal project that would connect the Swedish iron ore fields around Kiruna and Gällivare with Luleå and the Gulf of…
🇺🇸 United States · Hydraulic works
Grant's Canal (also known as Williams's Canal) was an incomplete military effort to construct a canal through De Soto Point in Louisiana, across the Mississippi River from Vicksburg, Mississippi.
🇷🇴 Romania · Hydraulic works
The Danube–Black Sea Canal (Romanian: Canalul Dunăre–Marea Neagră) is a navigable canal in Romania, which runs from Cernavodă on the Danube river, via two branches, to Constanța and Năvodari on the…
🇺🇸 United States · Hydraulic works
The Duluth Ship Canal is an artificial canal cut through Minnesota Point, providing direct access to Duluth harbor from Lake Superior.
🇺🇸 United States · Hydraulic works
Bonneville Lock and Dam consists of several run-of-the-river dam structures that together complete a span of the Columbia River between the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington at River Mile 146.1.
🇪🇸 Spain · Hydraulic works
The Almonacid de la Cuba Dam is a Roman gravity dam on the Aguasvivas River in Almonacid de la Cuba, Zaragoza province, Aragon, Spain, dating to the 1st century AD.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hydraulic works
Edstone Aqueduct is one of three aqueducts on a 4-mile (6 km) length of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal in Warwickshire. At 475 feet (145 m), Edstone is the longest cast iron aqueduct in England.
🇺🇸 United States · Hydraulic works
The Illinois and Michigan Canal connected the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River. In Illinois, it ran 96 miles (154 km) from the Chicago River in Bridgeport, Chicago, to the Illinois River at…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hydraulic works
Cosgrove aqueduct is a navigable cast iron trough navigable aqueduct that carries the Grand Union Canal over the River Great Ouse, on the borders between Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire at the…
🇺🇸 United States · Hydraulic works
Edwards Dam was a hydroelectric dam on the Kennebec River in the U.S. state of Maine. It was located in Augusta, Maine, about 40 miles (64 km) upstream from the Atlantic Ocean.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Hydraulic works
Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, has more than 100 kilometers (62 mi) of grachten (canals), about 90 islands and 1,500 bridges.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hydraulic works
The Hollinwood Branch Canal was a canal near Hollinwood, in Oldham, England. It left the main line of the Ashton Canal at Fairfield Junction immediately above lock 18.
🇺🇸 United States · Hydraulic works
The Franklin Canal is an irrigation canal in the Upper Rio Grande Valley near El Paso, Texas. The canal acquires water from the Rio Grande via the American Canal.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Hydraulic works
The Alicurá Dam (in Spanish, Embalse de Alicurá) is the first of five dams on the Limay River in northwestern Argentine Patagonia (the Comahue region), about 100 kilometres (62 mi) from the city of…
🇧🇷 Brazil · Hydraulic works
The Ilha Solteira Dam is an embankment dam on the Paraná River near Ilha Solteira in São Paulo, Brazil.
🇪🇸 Spain · Hydraulic works
The Consuegra Dam is a ruined Roman buttress dam in Toledo province, Castilla–La Mancha, Spain. The dam dates to the 3rd or 4th century AD. It is on the River Amarguillo upstream from Consuegra.
🇺🇸 United States · Hydraulic works
Holtwood Dam (also Holtwood Hydroelectric Dam, Holtwood Hydroelectric Plant, McCalls Ferry Dam) is the oldest of three major dams built across the lower Susquehanna River, and the middle location of…
🇺🇸 United States · Hydraulic works
The American Canal is an irrigation canal in the Upper Rio Grande Valley near El Paso, Texas.
🇺🇸 United States · Hydraulic works
Embudo Creek, also known as Rio Embudo, is formed by the confluence of the Rio Pueblo and Santa Barbara Creek near Peñasco in Taos County, New Mexico.
🇲🇩 Moldova · Hydraulic works
The Dubăsari Dam (also HPP Dubasari, Romanian: Hidroelectrocentrala de la Dubăsari) is a hydroelectric dam at the Dniester river near Dubăsari in Transnistria, Moldova. It was built in 1951–1954.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Chand Baori is a stepwell situated in the village of Abhaneri in the Indian state of Rajasthan.
🇨🇦 Canada · Hydraulic works
Brilliant Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Kootenay River near Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Hydraulic works
The Bảo Định canal (kênh Bảo Định, Bảo Định Hà), also called the Bảo Định river (Bảo Định Giang, sông Bảo Định) is a part-natural, part-man made waterway in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
The Birkha Bawari is a stepwell located in Jodhpur, India. The structure is to designed to conserve water for use by the city of Jodhpur, and is built in the style traditional Indian stepwells.