RESERVOIRS / EMBALSES / BARRAGES / STAUSEEN... OF THE WORLD

Hi everybody,


I hope to find many SSC forumers who are interested in reservoirs: their location, use, technical data, such as their surface, water storage capacity, length of shoreline, ..... and of course: photos!!!

Here in Spain we have thousands of them because the extremely variable climatic conditions in most parts of the country make them absolutely necessary. Many are really huge!

What I´m personally most interested in is
a. the wide range of leisure activities that can be practised in many of them: swimming, sailing, canoeing, wind-surfing, jet-skying, bird-watching, etc.

b. the new and (most often) beautiful landscapes created after their construction (in Spain, at least, all reservoir shores and surroundings were intensively afforested to stop erosion from washing too much earth into them)

I must confess I´m not a very skilled forumer, so I´ll try to post the first photos and infos in the following post.

It would be great to learn about dams, reservoirs and their surroundings in many countries of the world.

Please, join in!!!