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World Register of Dams / Registre Mondial des Barrages

World Register of Dams / Registre Mondial des Barrages

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The WRD is the best available data basis on dams in the world and we are constantly striving to better it.

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Position Paper

Position Paper

Position Paper - Dam Safety and Earthquakes
162

Bulletin 162

Environmental Fluid Mechanics
178

Bulletin 178

Operation of Hydraulic Structures of Dams
180

Bulletin 180

Dam Surveillance - Lessons learnt from case histories
27th

27th Congress

Marseille June 2022

Events

ANCOLD Conference 2024

ANCOLD Conference 2024: Never the same dam twice 

Adelaide, Australia

11 - 14 November 2024

 

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HYDRO 2024 Secure technology for turbulent times

Messe Congress Graz (MCG), Austria

18 to 20 November 2024

 

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ICOLD Event

17th ICOLD International Benchmark Workshop on Numerical Analysis of Dams

Sofia, Bulgaria

9th - 12th April 2025

 

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28th ICOLD Congress & 93rd Annual Meeting

Chengdu, China

15 May to 23rd May 2025

 

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TKZ2025

XXI technical dam control international conference

Cracow, Poland

09 - 12 September 2025

 

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The History of the World Register of Dams

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The History of the World Register of Dams

 

The World Register of Dams of ICOLD is a fizzy fountain of information for design, construction, scientifical work and statistical work and statistical evaluations. The last version includes more than 62,000 large dams according to the definition of ICOLD (height at least of 15 m above the foundation or above 5 m with a capacity above 3 million of m3). For each dam more than 45 information are given, amongst them geographical data, data of the dam, the spillway, the reservoir, the stakeholders as well as important environmental data…

 

It is interesting to look at the stages of the creation and evolution of the world register of large dams corresponding to the ICOLD criteria.

 

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