Water pushes against the buttress dam, but the buttresses push back and prevent the dam from toppling over. The weight of the buttress dam also pushes down into the ground.

You've decided that the electric power this dam provides does not justify the number of fish it kills. You're not alone. In 1999, the Edwards Dam in Maine was knocked down against the owner's will.

VIJAYAWADA: Water Resources Minister Nimmala Ramanaidu credited the rapid progress of the Polavaram Project to the NDA’s ‘double-engine’ government, both at the ...

The m-Presa™ modular steel buttress dam system facilitates the rapid construction of paired reservoir systems for grid-scale energy storage and generation using closed-loop pumped storage ...

We are also constructing a buttress dam at a cost of Rs 82 crore to arrest seepage in the cofferdam," he added. He said on average, about 2,000 TMC of water from Godavari river flows into the sea ...