🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Sadd al-Arim Secondary North Dam Marib
Sabaean to Himyarite · Kingdom of Saba
210-m saddle subsidiary dam 4 km NE of Great Marib storing Jufaynah tributary.
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🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Sabaean to Himyarite · Kingdom of Saba
210-m saddle subsidiary dam 4 km NE of Great Marib storing Jufaynah tributary.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Hydraulic works
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Hydraulic System at Bala Cairn in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Hydraulic works
The High Line Canal (HLC) is a man-made waterway, used for irrigation and recreation, that serves the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Reservoir of Little-Hunstanton in Hadramawt, Yemen is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Hydraulic works
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Barrow-Garh Aqueduct in Oruro, Bolivia is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Harappan culture.
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Iron Age to Islamic ~500 BCE–1000 CE · Omani (Sassanian overlay)
Emerald-pool wadi terraces fed by swim-through aflaj tunnels on Oman Gulf coast.
🇬🇪 Georgia · Hydraulic works
The Enguri Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Enguri River in Tsalenjikha, Georgia. Currently, it is the world's second highest concrete arch dam, with a height of 271.5 metres (891 ft).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hydraulic works
Chirk Aqueduct is a 70-foot (21 m) high and 710-foot (220 m) long navigable aqueduct that carries what is now the Llangollen Canal across the Ceiriog Valley near Chirk, on the England–Wales border,…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hydraulic works
Grade II* listed canal aqueduct in Warley, West Midlands, United Kingdom
🇺🇸 United States · Hydraulic works
dam in Calaveras County, California, United States of America
🇺🇸 United States · Hydraulic works
The Grand Coulee Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, built to produce hydroelectric power and provide irrigation water.
🇵🇱 Poland · Hydraulic works
The Augustów Canal (Polish: Kanał Augustowski, [ˈkanau̯ au̯ɡusˈtɔfski], Belarusian: Аўгустоўскі канал, romanized: Aŭhustoŭski kanal) is a cross-border canal built by the Congress Kingdom of Poland in…
🇸🇪 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.