Gariep Dam

From the Gariep (formerly Hendrik Verwoerd) Dam the Orange swings to the northwest to its confluence with the Vaal River. The Vaal, which rises in Eastern Transvaal province, flows west through the major population and industrial core of South Africa before turning south and joining the Orange…

The completed projects include the Gariep Dam (1972), which has formed the Gariep Reservoir; the Van der Kloof (formerly P.K. le Roux) Dam (1977), about 90 miles downstream from the Gariep Dam; a tunnel some 50 miles long (1975), which carries water from the Gariep Dam to the Great Fish…

…water tunnel—the world’s longest—from the Gariep Dam (formerly Hendrik Verwoerd Dam).

…Dam in Iran and the Gariep Dam in South Africa.