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The Tabaqah Dam (sometimes called the Euphrates
Euphrates

The Euphrates is the western of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia which flows from Anatolia....
 Dam) is an earth filled dam
Dam

A dam is a barrier that Reservoirs surface water or underground streams. Dams generally serve the primary purpose of retaining water, while other structures such as floodgates, levees, and Dike are used to manage or prevent water flow into specific land regions....
 nearly 197 feet (60 m) high and 3 miles (5 km) long (located at ) in Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
. It was completed in 1973 on the Euphrates River. The dam holds the waters of Lake Assad (center to left center of the image), a 50-mile (80 km) long and 5-mile (8 km) wide reservoir.






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The Tabaqah Dam (sometimes called the Euphrates
Euphrates

The Euphrates is the western of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia which flows from Anatolia....
 Dam) is an earth filled dam
Dam

A dam is a barrier that Reservoirs surface water or underground streams. Dams generally serve the primary purpose of retaining water, while other structures such as floodgates, levees, and Dike are used to manage or prevent water flow into specific land regions....
 nearly 197 feet (60 m) high and 3 miles (5 km) long (located at ) in Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
. It was completed in 1973 on the Euphrates River. The dam holds the waters of Lake Assad (center to left center of the image), a 50-mile (80 km) long and 5-mile (8 km) wide reservoir. Lake Assad and the Tabaqah Dam have not only provided increased hydroelectric power, but the lake has doubled Syria’s irrigated land. Actual crop production has not reached the goals set by the Syrian government due to a number of problems including the gypsum
Gypsum

Gypsum is a very soft mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula calciumsulfuroxygen4?2water....
 subsoil of the region, and whether or not farmers could be attracted back from urban areas andother more populous agricultural areas to this sparsely populated area. Water levels within Lake Assad remain low due in part to construction of the Keban
Keban Dam

The Keban Dam, located in the Elazig Province of Turkey, was the first of the large-scale dams to be built on the Euphrates River. It was built and is being operated by the State Hydraulic Works ....
 and Atatürk Dam
Atatürk Dam

The Atat?rk Dam , originally the Karababa Dam, is a Dam#Rock-fill dams on the Euphrates River on the border of Adiyaman Province and Sanliurfa Province in Southeastern Anatolia Region, Turkey of Turkey....
s in Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
, which has reduced the water flow of the Euphrates River in Syria.