The Aras Dam (Azerbaijani: Araz su anbarı; Persian: سد ارس) is an embankment dam on the Aras River along the border of Iran and Azerbaijan. It is located downstream of Poldasht in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran and Nakhchivan City in Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan.

2023年3月30日 · Today, it continues to flow through several international borders. Several dams also exist on the river, the most important being the Aras Dam, which was built in the 20th century by Iran and the Soviet Union. Aras river at Nurduz, the border post between Iran and Armenia. Image credit: Yann Forget, via Wikimedia Commons.

Khoda Afarin Dam (Persian: سد خداآفرین, also spelled as Khodaafarin Dam or Khudafarin Dam) is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Aras River straddling the international border between Iran and Azerbaijan.

Giz Galasi Dam (Azerbaijani: Qız Qalası SES, Persian: سد قیز قلعه‌سی) is an embankment dam on the Aras River straddling the international border between Azerbaijan and Iran. [2] It is located in Jabrayil District, Azerbaijan, and Khoda Afarin County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran, 12 km (7.5 mi) downstream of the Khoda Afarin ...

2021年12月28日 · The dam threatens to lower the level of the Kura in Azerbaijan, thus endangering water supplies for irrigation and drinking water. Turkey also has substantially increased its dam-building efforts on the upper Aras river. Compared to the projects on the Kura, Turkey has built a greater number of dams on the Aras, though with a lower capacity.

2021年7月10日 · The Aras dam, which was commissioned in 1971, has a volume of 1 billion 350 million cubic meters, whereas the Aras HPP and Mil-Mugan dam facilitates the irrigation of 400,000 hectares of land across the two countries.

2022年5月31日 · Turkey has already constructed six hydropower dams on the upper Aras River and is currently planning eight more. These infrastructure projects form part of the Southeastern Anatolia Project, a water and energy security project involving the construction of 22 dams and 19 hydropower plants on both the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

2023年5月23日 · An Iranian university professor and researcher says regional development plans by the Turkish government, including projects to construct dams on Aras River, will result in the drying out of three Iranian provinces.

Map of the Kura (Mtkvari) - Aras river system in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran and Turkey. Shaded relief data from US Geological Survey. The Kura is an east-flowing river south of the Greater Caucasus Mountains which drains the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus east into the Caspian Sea.

2024年3月12日 · It discusses the implications of Türkiye’s projects on downstream riparian states in general and Iran’s water resources, including dam construction. Abstract The Aras River Basin, a significant transboundary river basin in the Caucasus region, is shared among four riparian countries, including Türkiye, Armenia, Iran, and Azerbaijan.