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Here Are The The Largest Dams In South Africa And The World

seniorkoa — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:03:41 GMT

In this post, I am going to list all the largest dams in South Africa. Most of these dams are for domestic and irrigation purposes while other ones are used to generating power for electricity (hydropower).

For a dam to be classified as large, it must meet certain criteria such as the height and impounds.

Dams with a height of more than 15 meters are mostly considered. Moreover, some dam reservoirs between the height of 5 - 15 meters and impounding more than three (3) million cubic meters are also considered.

Read this: List Of Top Universities In South Africa.

One interesting thing you will see about this list of dams in South Africa is that the majority of them (over 74 percent) are Earthfill dams while the remaining 26 percent is made up of Rockfill, concrete arch, and concrete gravity dams.

Great Dams In South Africa

Also, you will get to know more about the biggest dam in South Africa which is the Vanderkloof Dam having a height of 108 meters and is located on the Orange River.

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The following are the largest dams in South Africa according to thebusinessalert.com:

1. Gariep Dam

2. Vanderkloof Dam

3. Sterkfontein Dam

4. Vaal Dam

5. Pongolapoort/Jozini Dam

6. Bloemhof Dam

7. Kruismansrivier Dam

8. Theewaterskloof Dam

9. Greater Brandvlei Dam

10. Heyshope Dam

11. Woodstock Dam

12. Loskop Dam

13. Grootdraai Dam

14. De Hoop Dam

15. Kalkfontein Dam

Source: https://thebusinessalert.com/largest-dams-south-africa/.

Other Important Dam Resources:

The Gariep Dam is one of the biggest in South Africa. It is a concrete gravity-arch hydro dam. The dam was originally called the Hendrik Verwoerd Dam.

It is located close to a town named Norvalspont and borders Eastern Cape and Free State provinces.

When was Gariep Dam built? The construction of the reservoir began in 1965 and commissioned in 1971.

The Gariep Dam is owned by the South African Department of Water Affairs.

The main purpose of the Gariep Dam is for energy generation, irrigation, industrial and domestic uses.

But how long is the Gariep Dam? This dam is 88 meters high, a length of 914 meters, and a total water capacity of 5,340,600 mega-liters. The dam having the largest surface area in South Africa is the Gariep dam (352 million meters square).

How full is the Vaal Dam? The dam can hold a maximum of 2,609,800,00 cubic meters of water. It has a height of 54.2 meters and occupies a surface area of 320 kilometers square.

When was the Vaal Dam Built? The dam was constructed in the year 1938 as a joint venture by the South African Department of Water Affairs and Rand Water.

Where is the Vaal Dam situated? The Vaal Dam in South Africa is situated about 77 kilometers south of Johannesburg and stretches across three (3) provinces: Free State, Gauteng, and Mpumalanga.

The Vaal Dam water levels are almost always high.

Because large floods are expected to occur on the Vaal River, a spillway capacity of 25,00 cubic meters/s was created.

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Google Search Tricks

seniorkoa — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:52:25 GMT

Google Search Tricks:

Well let me tell You what actually google tricks mean. Google tricks/google tips, does not mean hacking google, Using the below Google operators, we can get the desired google result very quickly. Well we can name this as hidden google secrets or Advanced google searching. .

Google Trick -1 :- GOOGLE OPERATOR

Type the following highlited words in google search box.

Google has several google operators that can help you find specific information, specific websites or inquire about the indexing of your own site, below you will find the most important ones:

Click on the example google trick, and You will be redirected to google.

define: - This google operator will find definitions for a certain term or word over the Internet. Very useful when you come across a strange word when writing a post. I use this as a google dictionary. example : (define computer)

info: - The google info operator will list the sets of information that Google has from a specific website (i.e. info:http://allgurus.ucozs.com)

site: - This google operator can be used to see the number of indexed pages on your site (i.e.site:www.allgurus.ucoz.com). Alternative it can also be used to search for information inside a specific site or class of sites.

link: - This google link operator allows you to find backlinks pointing to your site. Unfortunately the count is not updated frequently and not all backlinks are shown

allinurl: - Using this Google operator will limit the search to results that contain the desired keywords on the URL structure. (i.e. allinurl:dailyblogtips)

fileformat: - Useful Google operator for finding specific file formats. Sometimes you know that the information you are looking for is likely to be contained in a PDF document or on a PowerPoint presentation, for instance. (i.e. "fileformat:.pdf market research” will search for PDF documents that contain the terms "market” and "research”)

Google trick -2 Top 10 Cool Google Search Tricks

well as we have gained enough knowledge regarding google operators, lets have a look at the following 10 cool google search tricks. Click on the example google trick, and You will be redirected to google.

Google trick to search different file formats (keyword filetype:doc)
Google trick to search educational resources (keyword site:.edu) example (computer site:.edu)
Finding the time of any location (time romania)
Finding the weather of any location (boston weather)
Tracking commentary of live events (Olympic games Beijing 2008)
Using Google as a calculator (9 * 10)(143+234)(119-8)
Converting currencies (1 USD in INR)(10 US Dollars in Indian Rupee)
Find how many teaspoons are in a quarter cup (quarter cup in teaspoons)
how many seconds there are in a year (seconds in a year)
Tracking stocks (stocks:MSFT)
Finding faces (add imgtype=face to the URL)

google trick -3 Top Essential Google Search shortcuts

#1: Get Local Weather

Type: "weather [city name or zip/postal code]” Example: "weather 500054″ or "weather boston”

#2: Check Flight Status

Google automagically pulls flight data from FlightStats.com. All you have to do is enter the flight number. Type: [flight name and/or number] Example: "bc254″ or "newyork21″

#3: Convert Distances

Type: "[value] [first distance unit] to [second distance unit]” Example: "100 kilometers to miles”

#4: Find a Phone Number

Find a Person:

Type: "[person’s name], [city or zip/postal code]” Example: "john smith, london”

Find a Business/store:

Type: "[business name or type], [city or zip/postal code]” Example: "book store, boston”

Google trick -4 :Google search trick for Rapidshare files search:

#1 site:rapidshare.com inurl:users "*"

#2 site:rapidshare.de inurl:users "*"

#3 site:rapidshare.com inurl:files "*"

#4 site:rapidshare.de inurl:files "*"

#5 site:rapidshare.com inurl:users (pass|password)

#6 site:rapidshare.de inurl:users (pass|password)

Suppose u need some info on ebooks. Then u can try following keyword to see all rapidshare folders having any hacking related thing in it

site:rapidshare.com inurl:users "ebooks".