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 EarthquakesBulletin 162
Environmental Fluid MechanicsBulletin 178
Operation of Hydraulic Structures of DamsBulletin 180
Dam Surveillance - Lessons learnt from case histories27th Congress
Marseille June 2022HYDRO 2024 Secure technology for turbulent times
Messe Congress Graz (MCG), Austria
18 to 20 November 2024
17th ICOLD International Benchmark Workshop on Numerical Analysis of Dams
Sofia, Bulgaria
9th - 12th April 2025
XXI technical dam control international conference
Cracow, Poland
09 - 12 September 2025
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.
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 .
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