Reservoir, the Glossary
A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.[1]
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199 relations: Ab anbar, Abu Simbel, Algae, Aqueduct (water supply), Arabian Peninsula, Ashopton, Aswan Dam, Bacteria, Bala Lake, Balbina Dam, Bank (geography), Bay, Beacons Reservoir, Biogeochemical cycle, Birdwatching, Boating, Bratsk Reservoir, Bukhtarma Hydroelectric Power Plant, Burrendong Dam, Butana, Canada, Canal, Caniapiscau Reservoir, Cantref Reservoir, Capacitance, Capel Celyn, Carbon dioxide, Carbon monoxide, Cistern, Clywedog Reservoir, Coal, Coast, Coastal reservoir, Coastal sediment supply, Colourful lakelets, Dam, Dam failure, Dee Regulation Scheme, Drainage basin, Drinking water, Drought, Ecosystem, Eder (Fulda), Effects of climate change, Egypt, Electricity generation, Eutrophication, Farm, Fishing, Flue gas, ... Expand index (149 more) »
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Ab anbar
An ab anbar (آبانبار, literally "cistern") is a traditional reservoir or cistern of drinking water in Greater Iran in antiquity.
Abu Simbel
Abu Simbel is an historic site comprising two massive rock-cut temples in the village of Abu Simbel (أبو سمبل), Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt, near the border with Sudan.
Algae
Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.
Aqueduct (water supply)
An aqueduct is a watercourse constructed to carry water from a source to a distribution point far away.
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Arabian Peninsula
The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة,, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب,, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.
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Ashopton
Ashopton was a small village in Derbyshire, England, in the valley of the River Ashop.
Aswan Dam
The Aswan Dam, or more specifically since the 1980s, the Aswan High Dam, is one of the world's largest embankment dams, which was built across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt, between 1960 and 1970.
Bacteria
Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.
Bala Lake
Bala Lake (Llyn Tegid) is a large freshwater glacial lake in Gwynedd, Wales.
Balbina Dam
The Balbina Dam (Usina Hidrelétrica de Balbina) is a hydroelectric dam and power station on the Uatumã River in the Amazon Rainforest, Brazil.
Bank (geography)
In geography, a bank is the land alongside a body of water.
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Bay
A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. Reservoir and bay are Bodies of water.
Beacons Reservoir
Beacons Reservoir is the northernmost of the three reservoirs in the Taff Fawr valley in South Wales.
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Biogeochemical cycle
A biogeochemical cycle, or more generally a cycle of matter, is the movement and transformation of chemical elements and compounds between living organisms, the atmosphere, and the Earth's crust.
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Birdwatching
Birdwatching, or birding, is the observing of birds, either as a recreational activity or as a form of citizen science.
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Boating
Boating is the leisurely activity of travelling by boat, or the recreational use of a boat whether powerboats, sailboats, or man-powered vessels (such as rowing and paddle boats), focused on the travel itself, as well as sports activities, such as fishing or waterskiing.
Bratsk Reservoir
Bratsk Reservoir (Bratskoye vodokhranilishche) is a reservoir on the Angara River, located in the Lena-Angara Plateau of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia.
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Bukhtarma Hydroelectric Power Plant
The Bukhtarma Hydroelectric Power Plant (Бұқтырма Су Электр Стансасы, Buqtyrma Sý Elektr Stansasy; Бухтарминская ГЭС, Buchtarminskaja GES) is a hydroelectric power plant on the Irtysh River upstream of the town of Serebryansk, in East Kazakhstan Province of Kazakhstan.
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Burrendong Dam
Burrendong Dam is a rock-fill embankment major gated dam with a clay core across the Macquarie River upstream of Wellington in the central west region of New South Wales, Australia.
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Butana
The Butana (Arabic: البطانة, Buṭāna), historically called the Island of Meroë, is the region between the Atbara and the Nile in the Sudan.
Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Canal
Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi).
Caniapiscau Reservoir
The Caniapiscau Reservoir is a reservoir on the upper Caniapiscau River in the Côte-Nord administrative region of the Canadian province of Quebec.
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Cantref Reservoir
Cantref Reservoir is the middle of the three reservoirs in the Taff Fawr valley in Wales.
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Capacitance
Capacitance is the capability of a material object or device to store electric charge.
Capel Celyn
Capel Celyn was a rural community to the northwest of Bala in Gwynedd, Wales, in the Afon Tryweryn valley.
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
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Carbon monoxide
Carbon monoxide (chemical formula CO) is a poisonous, flammable gas that is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and slightly less dense than air.
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Cistern
A cistern is a space excavated in bedrock or soil designed for catching and storing water. Reservoir and cistern are reservoirs.
Clywedog Reservoir
The Clywedog Reservoir (Llyn Clywedog) is a reservoir near Llanidloes, Wales on the head-waters of the River Severn.
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.
Coast
A coastalso called the coastline, shoreline, or seashoreis the land next to the sea or the line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.
Coastal reservoir
A Coastal reservoir is a type of reservoir to store fresh water in a dammed area of a coastal sea near a river delta. Reservoir and coastal reservoir are artificial lakes, Bodies of water, lakes by type and reservoirs.
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Coastal sediment supply
Coastal sediment supply is the transport of sediment to the beach environment by both fluvial and aeolian transport.
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Colourful lakelets
Colourful lakelets (Polish "Kolorowe Jeziorka") is the name of three (sometimes four) artificial ponds formed in place of former mines at the slope of Wielka Kopa mountain (871 m) in Rudawy Janowickie, range in Sudetes Mountains, Poland.
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Dam
A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams.
Dam failure
A dam failure or dam burst is a catastrophic type of structural failure characterized by the sudden, rapid, and uncontrolled release of impounded water or the likelihood of such an uncontrolled release.
Dee Regulation Scheme
The Dee regulation scheme is a system of flow balancing and quality management along the River Dee managed by a consortium of the three largest water companies licensed to take water from the river, United Utilities, Welsh Water and Severn Trent Water; together with the regulator, Natural Resources Wales.
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Drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.
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Drinking water
Drinking water or potable water is water that is safe for ingestion, either when drunk directly in liquid form or consumed indirectly through food preparation.
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Drought
A drought is a period of drier-than-normal conditions.
Ecosystem
An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.
Eder (Fulda)
The Eder is a major river in Germany that begins in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia and passes in to Hesse, where it empties into the River Fulda.
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Effects of climate change
Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies.
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Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
Electricity generation
Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy.
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Eutrophication
Eutrophication is a general term describing a process in which nutrients accumulate in a body of water, resulting in an increased growth of microorganisms that may deplete the oxygen of water.
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Farm
A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production.
Fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.
Flue gas
Flue gas is the gas exiting to the atmosphere via a flue, which is a pipe or channel for conveying exhaust gases, as from a fireplace, oven, furnace, boiler or steam generator.
Forebay (reservoir)
A forebay is an artificial pool of water in front of a larger body of water. Reservoir and forebay (reservoir) are artificial lakes and reservoirs.
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Fossil fuel
A fossil fuel is a carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material such as coal, oil, and natural gas, formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the remains of prehistoric organisms (animals, plants and planktons), a process that occurs within geological formations.
Fresh water
Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids.
Freshet
The term freshet is most commonly used to describe a snowmelt, an annual high water event on rivers resulting from snow and river ice melting. Reservoir and freshet are Bodies of water.
Gatehouse (waterworks)
A gatehouse, gate house, outlet works or valve house for a dam is a structure housing sluice gates, valves, or pumps (in which case it is more accurately called a pumping station).
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Geomembrane
A geomembrane is very low permeability synthetic membrane liner or barrier used with any geotechnical engineering related material so as to control fluid (liquid or gas) migration in a human-made project, structure, or system.
Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa.
Girnar
Girnar is an ancient hill in Junagadh, Gujarat, India.
Gravitational energy
Gravitational energy or gravitational potential energy is the potential energy a massive object has due to its position in a gravitational field.
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Gravity
In physics, gravity is a fundamental interaction which causes mutual attraction between all things that have mass.
Greenhouse gas
Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the gases in the atmosphere that raise the surface temperature of planets such as the Earth.
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Greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activities intensify the greenhouse effect.
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Groundwater
Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.
Guri Dam
The Simón Bolívar Hydroelectric Plant, also Guri Dam (Central Hidroeléctrica Simón Bolívar or Represa de Guri), previously known as the Raúl Leoni Hydroelectric Plant, is a concrete gravity and embankment dam in Bolívar State, Venezuela, on the Caroni River, built from 1963 to 1969.
Hafir
A hafir, or haffir, is an artificially constructed water catchment basin with a circular earthen wall and diameters of between 70-250 m and heights of up to 7 m.
Head (hydrology)
In hydrology, the head is the point on a watercourse up to which it has been artificially broadened and/or raised by an impoundment.
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Heathrow Airport
Heathrow Airport, called London Airport until 1966, is the main international airport serving London, the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Hiking
Hiking is a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails or footpaths in the countryside.
Honor Oak
Honor Oak is an inner suburban area principally of the London Borough of Lewisham, with part in the London Borough of Southwark.
Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona.
Hydraulic head
Hydraulic head or piezometric head is a specific measurement of liquid pressure above a vertical datum.
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Hydroelectricity
Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).
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Hypolimnion
The hypolimnion or under lake is the dense, bottom layer of water in a thermally-stratified lake.
Hypoxia (environmental)
Hypoxia (hypo: "below", oxia: "oxygenated") refers to low oxygen conditions.
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Intake tower
An intake tower or outlet tower is a vertical tubular structure with one or more openings used for capturing water from reservoirs and conveying it further to a hydroelectric or water-treatment plant.
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Interbasin transfer
Interbasin transfer or transbasin diversion are (often hyphenated) terms used to describe man-made conveyance schemes which move water from one river basin where it is available, to another basin where water is less available or could be utilized better for human development.
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Irrigation
Irrigation (also referred to as watering of plants) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns.
Kariba Dam
The Kariba Dam is a double curvature concrete arch dam in the Kariba Gorge of the Zambezi river basin between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Kayak
A kayak is a small, narrow human-powered watercraft typically propelled by means of a long, double-bladed paddle.
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe.
Kingdom of Kush
The Kingdom of Kush (Egyptian: 𓎡𓄿𓈙𓈉 kꜣš, Assyrian: Kûsi, in LXX Χους or Αἰθιοπία; ⲉϭⲱϣ Ecōš; כּוּשׁ Kūš), also known as the Kushite Empire, or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along the Nile Valley in what is now northern Sudan and southern Egypt.
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Knickpoint
In geomorphology, a knickpoint or nickpoint is part of a river or channel where there is a sharp change in channel bed slope, such as a waterfall or lake.
Koyna Dam
The Koyna Dam is one of the largest dams in Maharashtra, India.
Krasnoyarsk Dam
The Krasnoyarsk Dam is a high concrete gravity dam located on the Yenisey River about upstream from Krasnoyarsk in Divnogorsk, Russia.
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Kremasta Dam
The Kremasta Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Achelous River in Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece.
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Kuybyshev Reservoir
Kuybyshev Reservoir or Kuybyshevskoye Reservoir (Kuybyshevskoye vodokhranilishche), sometimes called Samara Reservoir and informally called Kuybyshev Sea, is a reservoir of the middle Volga and lower Kama in Chuvashia, Mari El Republic, Republic of Tatarstan, Samara Oblast and Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia.
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Lago del Salto
Lago del Salto is a reservoir lake in the Province of Rieti, Lazio, Italy.
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Lake
A lake is an often naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. Reservoir and lake are Bodies of water.
Lake Kariba
Lake Kariba is the world's largest artificial lake and reservoir by volume.
Lake Nasser
Lake Nasser (بحيرة ناصر) is a vast reservoir in southern Egypt and northern Sudan.
Lake stratification
Lake stratification is the tendency of lakes to form separate and distinct thermal layers during warm weather.
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Lake Volta
Lake Volta, the largest artificial reservoir in the world based on surface area, is contained behind the Akosombo Dam which generates a substantial amount of Ghana's electricity. Reservoir and Lake Volta are artificial lakes.
Landscape painting
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition.
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Levee
A levee, dike (American English), dyke (Commonwealth English), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is a structure used to keep the course of rivers from changing and to protect against flooding of the area adjoining the river or coast.
Limnology
Limnology is the study of inland aquatic ecosystems.
Llwyn-on Reservoir
Llwyn-on Reservoir (or Llwyn Onn Reservoir) is the largest and southernmost of the three reservoirs in the Taf Fawr valley in South Wales.
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Llyn Celyn
Llyn Celyn is a reservoir constructed between 1960 and 1965 including the highly controversial Tryweryn flooding in the valley of the River Tryweryn in Gwynedd, Wales.
Llyn Eigiau
Llyn Eigiau is a lake on the edge of the Carneddau range of mountains in Snowdonia, Conwy, Wales.
Lock (water navigation)
A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways.
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Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh (meaning 'central province') is a state in central India.
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Manganese
Manganese is a chemical element; it has symbol Mn and atomic number 25.
Manicouagan Reservoir
Manicouagan Reservoir (also Lake Manicouagan) is an annular lake in central Quebec, Canada, covering an area of.
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Marathon Dam
The Marathon Dam is a gravity dam on the Charadros River, near its junction with the Varnavas Stream, west of Marathon and northeast of Athens in Greece.
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Marina Barrage
Marina Barrage is a dam in southern Singapore built at the confluence of five rivers, across the Marina Channel between Marina East and Marina South.
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Mercury (element)
Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80.
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Meroë
Meroë (also spelled Meroe; Meroitic: Medewi; translit and label; translit) was an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan, approximately 200 km north-east of Khartoum.
Methane
Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula (one carbon atom bonded to four hydrogen atoms).
Methylmercury
Methylmercury (sometimes methyl mercury) is an organometallic cation with the formula.
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Mid Wales
Mid Wales (Canolbarth Cymru or simply Y Canolbarth, meaning "the midlands"), or Central Wales, is a region of Wales, encompassing its midlands, in-between North Wales and South Wales.
Mill pond
A mill pond (or millpond) is a body of water used as a reservoir for a water-powered mill.
Moment magnitude scale
The moment magnitude scale (MMS; denoted explicitly with M or or Mwg, and generally implied with use of a single M for magnitude) is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude ("size" or strength) based on its seismic moment.
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Musawwarat es-Sufra
Musawwarat es-Sufra (Arabic:المصورات الصفراء, Meroitic: Aborepi, Old Egyptian: jbrp, jpbr-ˁnḫ), also known as Al-Musawarat Al-Sufra, is a large Meroitic temple complex in modern Sudan, dating back to the early Meroitic period of the 3rd century BC.
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Natural history
Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.
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Navigability
A body of water, such as a river, canal or lake, is navigable if it is deep, wide and calm enough for a water vessel (e.g. boats) to pass safely.
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Nile
The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.
Nitric oxide
Nitric oxide (nitrogen oxide or nitrogen monoxide) is a colorless gas with the formula.
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No. 617 Squadron RAF
Number 617 Squadron is a Royal Air Force aircraft squadron, originally based at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire and currently based at RAF Marham in Norfolk. It is commonly known as "The Dambusters", for its actions during Operation Chastise against German dams during the Second World War. In the early 21st century it operated the Panavia Tornado GR4 in the ground attack and reconnaissance role until being disbanded on 28 March 2014.
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North Wales
North Wales (Gogledd Cymru) is a region of Wales, encompassing its northernmost areas.
Nutrient
A nutrient is a substance used by an organism to survive, grow and reproduce.
Off-stream reservoir
An off-stream reservoir is a reservoir that is not located on a streambed, and is supplied by a pipeline, aqueduct or an adjacent stream. Reservoir and off-stream reservoir are reservoirs.
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Oligotroph
An oligotroph is an organism that can live in an environment that offers very low levels of nutrients.
Operation Chastise
Operation Chastise, commonly known as the Dambusters Raid, was an attack on German dams carried out on the night of 16/17 May 1943 by 617 Squadron RAF Bomber Command, later called the Dam Busters, using special "bouncing bombs" developed by Barnes Wallis.
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Orifice plate
An orifice plate is a device used for measuring flow rate, for reducing pressure or for restricting flow (in the latter two cases it is often called a).
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Parakrama Samudra
Parakrama Samudra (or King Parakrama's sea or the Sea of King Parakrama) is a shallow reservoir (wewa), consisting of five separate wewa (reservoirs) (thopa, dumbutulu, erabadu, bhu, kalahagala tanks) connected by narrow channels in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka.
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Parakramabahu I
Parākramabāhu I (Sinhala: මහා පරාක්රමබාහු, 1123–1186), or Parakramabahu the Great, was the king of Polonnaruwa from 1153 to 1186.
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Petrella Salto
Petrella Salto (La Petrella) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region of Latium, located about northeast of Rome and about southeast of Rieti.
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Phosphorus
Phosphorus is a chemical element; it has symbol P and atomic number 15.
Pipeline
A pipeline is a system of pipes for long-distance transportation of a liquid or gas, typically to a market area for consumption.
Plover Cove Reservoir
Plover Cove Reservoir, located within Plover Cove Country Park, in the northeastern New Territories, is the largest reservoir in Hong Kong in terms of area, and the second-largest in terms of volume.
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Productivity
Productivity is the efficiency of production of goods or services expressed by some measure.
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Puddling (civil engineering)
Puddling is both the material and the process of lining a water body such as a channel or pond with puddle clay (puddle, puddling) – a watertight (low hydraulic conductivity) material based on clay and water mixed to be workable.
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Pumped-storage hydroelectricity
Pumped-storage hydroelectricity (PSH), or pumped hydroelectric energy storage (PHES), is a type of hydroelectric energy storage used by electric power systems for load balancing.
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Quarry lake
A quarry lake, also known as a pit lake, is a lake that is formed after a quarry has been dug through a mining operation. Reservoir and quarry lake are lakes by type.
Queen Mary Reservoir
The Queen Mary Reservoir is one of the largest of London's reservoirs supplying fresh water to London and parts of surrounding counties, and is located in the Borough of Spelthorne in Surrey.
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Rain
Rain is water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then fall under gravity.
Raw water
Raw water is water found in the environment that has not been treated and does not have any of its minerals, ions, particles, bacteria, or parasites removed.
Recreation
Recreation is an activity of leisure, leisure being discretionary time.
Reservoir safety
Reservoirs storing large volumes of water have the capability of causing considerable damage and loss of life if they fail. Reservoir and Reservoir safety are reservoirs.
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Retaining wall
Retaining walls are relatively rigid walls used for supporting soil laterally so that it can be retained at different levels on the two sides.
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Rideau Canal
The Rideau Canal is a 202 kilometre long canal that links the Ottawa River at Ottawa with the Cataraqui River and Lake Ontario at Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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River
A river is a natural flowing freshwater stream, flowing on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. Reservoir and river are Bodies of water.
River Dee, Wales
The River Dee (Afon Dyfrdwy, Deva Fluvius) is a river flowing through North Wales, and through Cheshire, England, in Great Britain.
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River Lea
The River Lea is in the East of England and Greater London.
River mouth
A river mouth is where a river flows into a larger body of water, such as another river, a lake/reservoir, a bay/gulf, a sea, or an ocean.
River Taff
The River Taff (Afon Taf) is a river in Wales.
River Thames
The River Thames, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London.
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Road roller
A road roller (sometimes called a roller-compactor, or just roller) is a compactor-type engineering vehicle used to compact soil, gravel, concrete, or asphalt in the construction of roads and foundations.
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
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Ruhr
The Ruhr (Ruhrgebiet, also Ruhrpott), also referred to as the Ruhr area, sometimes Ruhr district, Ruhr region, or Ruhr valley, is a polycentric urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Run-of-the-river hydroelectricity
Run-of-river hydroelectricity (ROR) or run-of-the-river hydroelectricity is a type of hydroelectric generation plant whereby little or no water storage is provided.
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Rybinsk Reservoir
Rybinsk Reservoir (Rybinskoye vodokhranilishche), informally called the Rybinsk Sea, is a water reservoir on the Volga River and its tributaries Sheksna and Mologa, formed by Rybinsk Hydroelectric Station dam, located in the Tver, Vologda, and Yaroslavl Oblasts.
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Saemangeum Seawall
The Saemangeum Seawall, on the south-west coast of the Korean peninsula, is the world's longest man-made dyke, measuring.
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Salmon
Salmon (salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (Salmo) and North Pacific (Oncorhynchus) basins.
Shade ball
A shade ball is a small plastic sphere floated on top of a reservoir for environmental reasons, including to slow evaporation and prevent sunlight from causing reactions among chemical compounds present in the water. Reservoir and shade ball are reservoirs.
Silt
Silt is granular material of a size between sand and clay and composed mostly of broken grains of quartz.
Sinhala Kingdom
The Sinhala Kingdom or Sinhalese Kingdom refers to the successive Sinhalese kingdoms that existed in what is today Sri Lanka.
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Siphon
A siphon (also spelled syphon) is any of a wide variety of devices that involve the flow of liquids through tubes.
Smallwood Reservoir
The Smallwood Reservoir is the reservoir created for the Churchill Falls Generating Station in the western part of Labrador, Canada.
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South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.
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Spillway
A spillway is a structure used to provide the controlled release of water downstream from a dam or levee, typically into the riverbed of the dammed river itself.
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.
Stepwell
Stepwells (also known as vavs or baori) are wells, cisterns or ponds with a long corridor of steps that descend to the water level.
Stratum
In geology and related fields, a stratum (strata) is a layer of rock or sediment characterized by certain lithologic properties or attributes that distinguish it from adjacent layers from which it is separated by visible surfaces known as either bedding surfaces or bedding planes.
Stream
A stream is a continuous body of surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel. Reservoir and stream are Bodies of water.
Stream bed
A streambed or stream bed is the bottom of a stream or river (bathymetry) and is confined within a channel, or the banks (bank (geography) of the waterway.
Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.
Sulfur dioxide
Sulfur dioxide (IUPAC-recommended spelling) or sulphur dioxide (traditional Commonwealth English) is the chemical compound with the formula.
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Surface runoff
Surface runoff (also known as overland flow or terrestrial runoff) is the unconfined flow of water over the ground surface, in contrast to channel runoff (or stream flow).
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Thames Water
Thames Water Utilities Ltd, known as Thames Water, is a British private utility company responsible for the water supply and waste water treatment in most of Greater London, Luton, the Thames Valley, Surrey, Gloucestershire, north Wiltshire, far west Kent, and some other parts of England; like other water companies, it has a monopoly in the regions it serves.
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Thames Water Ring Main
The Thames Water Ring Main (TWRM, formerly the London Water Ring Main) is a system of approximately of concrete tunnels which transfer drinking water from water treatment works in the Thames and River Lea catchments for distribution within central London.
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The Narrows
The Narrows is the tidal strait separating the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City.
Thermal power station
A thermal power station is a type of power station in which heat energy is converted to electrical energy.
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Topography
Topography is the study of the forms and features of land surfaces.
Tucuruí Dam
The Tucuruí Dam (Tucuruí means "grasshopper's water", translated from Tupí language; Tucuruí) is a concrete gravity dam on the Tocantins River located on the Tucuruí County in the State of Pará, Brazil.
Turbidity
Turbidity is the cloudiness or haziness of a fluid caused by large numbers of individual particles that are generally invisible to the naked eye, similar to smoke in air.
Valley
A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which typically contains a river or stream running from one end to the other. Reservoir and valley are Bodies of water.
Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.
Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
WAFLEX
WAFLEX is a spreadsheet-based model.
Water distribution system
A water distribution system is a part of water supply network with components that carry potable water from a centralized treatment plant or wells to consumers to satisfy residential, commercial, industrial and fire fighting requirements.
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Water resources
Water resources are natural resources of water that are potentially useful for humans, for example as a source of drinking water supply or irrigation water.
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Water scarcity in India
Water scarcity in India is an ongoing water crisis that affects nearly hundreds of million of people each year.
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Water storage
Water storage is a broad term referring to storage of both potable water for consumption, and non potable water for use in agriculture. Reservoir and water storage are reservoirs.
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Water tank
A water tank is a container for storing water, for many applications, drinking water, irrigation, fire suppression, farming, both for plants and livestock, chemical manufacturing, food preparation as well as many other uses.
Water tower
A water tower is an elevated structure supporting a water tank constructed at a height sufficient to pressurize a distribution system for potable water, and to provide emergency storage for fire protection.
Water treatment
Water treatment is any process that improves the quality of water to make it appropriate for a specific end-use.
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Water turbine
A water turbine is a rotary machine that converts kinetic energy and potential energy of water into mechanical work.
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WEAP
WEAP (the Water Evaluation and Planning system) is a model-building tool for water resource planning and policy analysis that is distributed at no charge to non-profit, academic, and governmental organizations in developing countries.
Whitewater
Whitewater forms in the context of rapids, in particular, when a river's gradient changes enough to generate so much turbulence that air is trapped within the water.
Williston Lake
Williston Lake is a reservoir created by the W. A. C. Bennett Dam which is located in the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada.
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Winery
A winery is a building or property that produces wine, or a business involved in the production of wine, such as a wine company.
World Commission on Dams
The World Commission on Dams (WCD) existed between April 1997 and 2001, to research the environmental, social and economic impacts of the development of large dams globally.
See Reservoir and World Commission on Dams
Xinfengjiang Dam
The Xinfengjiang Dam (also known as the Xinfeng Dam) is a gravity dam on the Xinfeng River, upstream of its confluence with the Dong River, and just west of Heyuan City in Guangdong Province, China.
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Zambia
Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa.
Zeya Dam
The Zeya Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Zeya River by the town of Zeya, Amur Oblast, Russia, north of the Chinese border.
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.
Zooplankton
Zooplankton are the animal (or heterotrophic) component of the planktonic community (the "zoo-" prefix comes from), having to consume other organisms to thrive.
2010–2011 Queensland floods
A series of floods hit Queensland, Australia, beginning in December 2010.
See Reservoir and 2010–2011 Queensland floods
See also
Artificial lakes
- Aspire Lake
- Boyana Lake
- Chitgar Lake
- Coastal reservoir
- Crushed Rock, Mpape
- Dầu Tiếng Lake
- Forebay (reservoir)
- Inundation, Gibraltar
- Koseze Pond
- Lake Ghioroc
- Lake Gregory (Nuwara Eliya)
- Lake Tharthar
- Lake Volta
- Mavrovica
- Modon Lake
- Petnja
- Puckinger See
- Reservoir
- Reservoirs
- Svrčin lake
Lakes by type
- Alpine lake
- Amictic lake
- Ancient lake
- Artificial lakes
- Bathing lake
- Boating lake
- Coastal reservoir
- Dimictic lake
- Dystrophic lake
- Endorheic lakes
- Finger lake
- Flash (lake)
- Glacial lake
- Glacial lakes
- Gloe lake
- Holomictic lake
- Karst lake
- Lake bifurcation
- Meromictic lake
- Meromictic lakes
- Monomictic lake
- Moraine-dammed lake
- Oxbow lake
- Oxbow lakes
- Pink lake
- Pluvial lake
- Polymictic lake
- Prairie lake
- Quarry lake
- Reservoir
- Reservoirs
- Ribbon lake
- Rift lake
- Rift lakes
- Saline lakes
- Soda lake
- Volcanogenic lake
- Volcanogenic lakes
Reservoirs
- Cahora Bassa
- Cistern
- Coastal reservoir
- Dam (agricultural reservoir)
- Dam safety
- Environmental impact of reservoirs
- Forebay (reservoir)
- Full summer pool
- Kouloura
- Kunstteich
- List of reservoirs by surface area
- List of reservoirs by volume
- List of reservoirs on Jersey
- Loughberry Lake
- Off-stream reservoir
- Porosity Storage Reservoir
- Reservoir
- Reservoir fluids
- Reservoir safety
- Rise in core
- Roman cisterns
- Sardoba Reservoir
- Shade ball
- Taigan Reservoir
- Water storage
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir
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