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First Lady Lady Bird Johnson formally dedicated Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona on 22 September 1966, three years after its last concrete was poured and the river began backing up into Lake Powell.

Egypt's Aswan High Dam, built with Soviet help across the Nile since 1960, was completed on 21 July 1970, creating Lake Nasser and ending the river's annual flood cycle.

The first generating unit of Itaipu Binacional on the Paraná River was synchronised on 5 May 1984, starting the plant that grew into one of the world's largest hydropower stations.

China held the grand commencement ceremony for the Three Gorges Project at Sandouping on the Yangtze on 14 December 1994, starting what became the world's largest hydropower plant.

Workers poured the last concrete of the Three Gorges Dam wall on 20 May 2006, finishing the core structure of the world's biggest hydropower project on the Yangtze.

The Three Gorges reservoir on the Yangtze rose to its full design level of 175 metres at 9 a.m. on 26 October 2010, after failed attempts in 2008 and 2009.

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi launched construction of what became the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile on 2 April 2011, with Italy's Salini building it.

Premier Li Qiang presided over the groundbreaking in Nyingchi on 19 July 2025 for the Medog hydropower project, planned as the world's largest, on the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet.

Lake Powell's elevation dropped to 3,519.91 feet on Saturday 15 August 2026, just under the April 2023 record, less than two weeks after Lake Mead hit its own record low.

Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi signed an agreement on 15 September 2026 to build the 422 MW Kishau multipurpose project on the Tons River, ending a long deadlock.