Why are the walls of a dam thickened near the base??
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because the water pressure increases as depth increases so to avoid dam to break the base is thickened
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The dam. You can see from the diagram that the dam is much thicker at the bottom than it is at the top. This is because the pressure of the water is much greater deeper down and the dam needs to be thick at the bottom so that it is strong enough to withstand this larger pressure
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