What is the specific term to describe the building of reservoirs/water dams?
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hydrological AND hydrodynamical engineering
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fresh water --- the source is the snow melt from the Rocky Mountains.  The Hoover Dam impounds the Colorado River forming Lake Mead.  The "Lake" in Lake Mead is a misnomer --- it is technically a reservoir since it is formed by the impounding the Colorado River.  A true "lake" has no dam -- like Lake Tahoe or Crater Lake.
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farm, ranch, feed lot (types of property); pasture, range (open field); barn (building)
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Bridges, mines, tunnels, dams, highways, ...
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www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter12.html\nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydropower \nwww.wvic.com/hydro-facts.htm\nsolstice.crest.org/renewables/ re-kiosk/hydro
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That's the way english is...or for that matter any other language. The literal meaning can be vastly different from the actual meaning which must be inferred from the context. Therefore, if I say I'm gonna water the plants....then, water here is used as a verb whose meaning has evolved out of common usage. "building" has a similar evolution from its original meaning.\n\nI guess you've posted this question just for the sake of posting and fun...well, so am I, answering it to make my first post :)
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Civil Engineering:\n\n1. includes the planning, designing, construction, and maintenance of structures and altering geography to suit human needs. Some of the numerous subdivisions are transportation (eg, railroad facilities and highways); hydraulics (eg, river control, irrigation, swamp draining, water supply, and sewage disposal); and structures (eg, buildings, bridges, and tunnels).\n\n2. the branch of engineering concerned with the design and construction of such public works as dams or bridges \n\n3. In modern usage, civil engineering is a broad field of engineering that deals with the planning, construction, and maintenance of fixed structures, or public works, as they related to earth, water, or civilization and their processes. Most civil engineering today deals with roads, structures, water supply, sewer, flood control and traffic.\n\n\n\nCheck out the sites below, hope this helps and good luck!  (they may seem the same at the beginning, the addresses, but check them out!!)
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Now take all the words that have been answered for you and use a thesaurus to find even more!\n\ndrizzle, pour, flow, sprinkle, wave, surge, ebb, tide, tidal, lap (as in lap the shore), mist, fog, consensation, steam, drip, overflow, seap,  ...
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Dams close up a river so the water stays in one place and forms an artificial lake. Canals are water passageways that boats carrying cargo can use to move around.
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A magma chamber, or a magma reservoir if you want to sound like a professional... lol.
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h2o , aqua, agua, eau ,wasser, hydrogen oxide.\n\nalthough those are foreign words for water, they have uses in english eg eau d'cologne, aqua vitae etc\n\nmaybe also \nsea, rain, lake,river, ice, snow,pond, pool,brook,steam,vapour?
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http://www.hydroinformatics.org/
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Here's one:\n\nhttp://www.dnr.sc.gov/water/envaff/river/gr_pee_deemap.htm
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dams aim to receipt the surplus water at the rainy seasom so it's water can utilize at dry season. The utilizing to change the natural distribution water to demand condition. And other used such as generating a generator to produce electric.\n\nBArrages created just to boosting up the water level or face irrigate so the water can irrigating the longest place that we designed.
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renewable resources are sources that will not be elimated as quickly as non-renewable resources. These sources can be recreated by the environment, and this all occurs in a cycle. For instance, water is a renewable resource because even after it evaporates, in whatever form it will eventually go through condensation back into the liquid form.
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river\n\nn : a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); \n\nIf it didn't have water, I don't think it would be called a river.
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The movement of water around, over, and through the Earth is called the water cycle.The water cycle—technically known as the hydrologic cycle—is the continuous circulation of water within the Earth's hydrosphere, and is driven by solar radiation. This includes the atmosphere, land, surface water and groundwater. As water moves through the cycle, it changes state between liquid, solid, and gas phases. Water moves from compartment to compartment, such as from river to ocean, by the physical processes of evaporation, precipitation, infiltration, runoff, and subsurface flow. Movement of water within the water cycle is the subject of the field of hydrology.