Dam Breakthrough

• By size
International standards (including International Commission on Large Dams, ICOLD) define large dams as higher than 15 meters and major dams as over 150 meters in height. The Report of the World Commission on Dams also includes in the large category, dams, such as barrages, which are between 5 and 15 meters high with a reservoir capacity of more than 3 million cubic meters.
The tallest dam in the world is the 300-meter-high Nurek Dam in Tajikistan.