International Commission on Large Dams

Publications

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.

Position Paper

Position Paper - Dam Safety and Earthquakes

Bulletin 162

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Bulletin 178

Operation of Hydraulic Structures of Dams

Bulletin 180

Dam Surveillance - Lessons learnt from case histories

27th Congress

Marseille June 2022

Events

17th ICOLD International Benchmark Workshop on Numerical Analysis of Dams

Sofia, Bulgaria

9^th - 12^th April 2025

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28^th ICOLD Congress & 93^rd Annual Meeting

Chengdu, China

15 May to 23^rd May 2025

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XXI technical dam control international conference

Cracow, Poland

09 - 12 September 2025

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Register of Dams

The world's best databasis on dams, established upon the national inventories sent by the member countries of ICOLD. The Register is continuously updated. It includes more than 55,000 Dams.

Database Presentation

General Synthesis

DATA SEARCH

History

The Technical Dictionary on Dams provides translation of more than 3000 technical terms in the field of Dams (with Sketches, for certain terms), in the following languages: English , French , German , Spanish , Italian , Portuguese , Swedish , Slovene , Finnish .