Question

Dams are called multipurpose projects. Why?

Answer 1

A river valley multipurpose project is a project which covers the development of dam on a sufficiently large river extended over a large geographical area. It serves many purposes at a single time like acting as a hydroelectric power plant,providing a source of clean drinking water, providing irrigation to fields, checking floods and flow of river water,etc

Answer 2

Dams are referred to as multi purpose projects because in dam we can store water for generating electrictiy , but dams can be usefull in many other works like irrigations for farms, fishing etc .