🇺🇸 United States · Hydraulic works
Grant's Canal
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
Danube–Black Sea Canal
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
Duluth Ship Canal
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 Dam
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
Almonacid de la Cuba Dam
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
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
Illinois and Michigan Canal
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
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
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.
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Falaj al-Khatmeen (Birkat al-Mouz — UNESCO aflaj flagship)
Iron Age II to Islamic (1000 BCE–present; active) · Iron Age Oman (Lizq–Rumaylah) → Sasanian → Islamic Ya'aribah
3.5-km Iron Age daudi qanat (c.1000 BCE, 8 shafts) delivering 70 l/s — UNESCO aflaj flagship at Birkat al-Mouz.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Hydraulic works
Canals of Amsterdam
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
Hollinwood Branch Canal
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.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Sadd el-Kafara – Wadi Garawi Old Kingdom Dam
Early Old Kingdom (Djoser–Sneferu) · Old Kingdom Egyptians (Memphite)
World's oldest dam (2650 BCE)—110-m Old Kingdom embankment diverting Wadi Garawi floods.
🇸🇾 Syria · Hydraulic works
Hama Norias — Orontes River Water Wheels (Hama Historic Hydraulic System)
Byzantine to Ayyubid–Ottoman palimpsest (Roman origins 4th c BCE–14th c CE continuity) · Byzantine / Ayyubid (Norias mainly Ayyubid 12th–14th c)
Seventeen surviving norias (river-driven water wheels) on Orontes River through Hama (285 m), largest Al-Muhammadiya 21 m diameter (largest noria in world, 1207 Ayyubid), lifting Orontes water 15–21…
🇺🇸 United States · Hydraulic works
Franklin Canal (Texas)
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
Alicurá Dam
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
Ilha Solteira Dam
The Ilha Solteira Dam is an embankment dam on the Paraná River near Ilha Solteira in São Paulo, Brazil.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Qanat-e Gonabad South Gallery (Ghasemabad South Branch Qanat)
Achaemenid to present (520 BCE–ongoing) · Achaemenid Gonabad oasis (Khorasan piedmont)
South Gonabad gallery 4.1 km with 62 shafts 42 m mother well: Achaemenid 520 BCE saruj, 12 L/s to Ghasemabad saffron.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Dholavira Bailey Reservoir North Embankment Annex — Eastern Outlier
Harappan Mature (2600-1900 BCE) · Harappan
Dholavira Bailey Reservoir North Embankment Annex — Eastern Outlier in Gujarat, Kutch, India is a Harappan Mature (2600-1900 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Harappan.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Hydraulic works
Mohenjo-daro Great Bath Western Drain Annex — Eastern Outlier
Harappan Mature (2600-1900 BCE) · Harappan
Mohenjo-daro Great Bath Western Drain Annex — Eastern Outlier in Sindh, Larkana, Pakistan is a Harappan Mature (2600-1900 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Harappan.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Dholavira Bailey Reservoir North Embankment Annex — Northern Annex
Harappan Mature (2600-1900 BCE) · Harappan
Dholavira Bailey Reservoir North Embankment Annex — Northern Annex in Gujarat, Kutch, India is a Harappan Mature (2600-1900 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Harappan.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Marib Great Dam North Sluice Annex — Northern Annex
Early South Arabian (800 BCE-600 CE) · Sabaean
Marib Great Dam North Sluice Annex — Northern Annex in Marib Governorate, Yemen is a Early South Arabian (800 BCE-600 CE) hydraulic attributed to Sabaean.
🇪🇸 Spain · Hydraulic works
Consuegra Dam
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.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Kebar Dam South Spillway Extension (Kebar Secondary Spill)
Mongol Ikhanid–early Timurid (1300–1400 CE) original; Safavid extension 1680 · Ilkhanid–Safavid
South-bank secondary spillway extension 0.4 km south of main Kebar arch dam (26 m high, 55 m crest, oldest surviving arch dam c.1300, already in DB as kebar-dam-qom-iran) at 1,520 m.