Word: dokan
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...Sulaimaniya, stronghold of the often rebellious Kurds, King Feisal directed the lowering of a huge, crane-borne cornerstone into the depth of the mighty gorge on the Little Zab River. When the Dokan Dam is completed, it will control costly floods, irrigate 800,000 acres of now barren land...
...lakes at Wadi Tharthar and Habbaniya. Downstream, other contractors are digging drainage ditches and scooping silt from the ancient Babylonian water-distribution canals, now scheduled to be used again as in Hammurabi's time. In upper Iraq, a French firm is building a $28 million concrete dam at Dokan...
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