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- Notes:
- -A lot of the dates are probably inaccurate, it was quite difficult to find some of these
- -There are still a TON of these missing, I might eventually turn this into a spreadsheet or something
- -Provinces are listed just so you can easily find where the reservoirs are
- -=North America=-
- -Canada-
- 1927 - Baskatong Reservoir (Quebec)
- 1928 - Paugan Reservoir (Quebec)
- 1929 - Cabonga Reservoir (Quebec)
- 1949 - Dozois Reservoir (Quebec)
- 1952 - Nechako Reservoir (British Columbia)
- 1953 - Pipmuacan Reservoir (Quebec)
- 1959 - Bersimis-2 (Quebec)
- 1967 - Smallwood Reservoir (Newfoundland and Labrador)
- 1968 - Williston Lake (British Columbia)
- 1969 - Outardes-4 (Quebec)
- 1970 - Manicouagan Reservoir (Quebec)
- 1978 - Robert-Bourassa Reservoir (Quebec)
- 1980 - Opinaca Reservoir (Quebec)
- 1981 - Caniapiscau Reservoir (Quebec)
- 1984 - La Grande-3 Reservoir (Quebec)
- 1986 - La Grande-4 (Quebec)
- 1994 - Laforge-1 (Quebec)
- 2007 - Eastmain Reservoir (Quebec)
- -United States-
- 1831 - Lake Hopatcong (New Jersey)
- 1845 - Grand Lake St. Marys (Ohio)
- 1851 - Lake Koshkonong (Wisconsin)
- 1860 - Indian Lake (Ohio)
- 1882 - Stillwater Reservoir (New York)
- 1905 - Salton Sea (California)
- 1910 - Clear Lake Reservoir (California)
- 1911 - Belle Fourche Reservoir (South Dakota)
- - Lake Jackson (Georgia)
- - Theodore Roosevelt Lake (Arizona)
- 1912 - Salmon River Reservoir (New York)
- 1914 - Lake Almanor (California)
- - Hebgen Lake (Montana)
- - Piute Reservoir (Utah)
- - Loch Raven Reservoir (Maryland)
- 1915 - Ashokan Reservoir (New York)
- 1919 - Lake Wateree (South Carolina)
- 1922 - Lake Decatur (Illinois)
- 1925 - Deep Creek Lake (Maryland)
- 1926 - Lake Martin (Alabama)
- - Lake Wallenpaupack (Pennsylvania)
- - Willow Reservoir (Wisconsin)
- 1927 - Lake Pleasant (Arizona)
- 1928 - Candlewood Lake (Connecticut)
- 1930 - Lake Blackshear (Georgia)
- - Great Sacandaga Lake (New York)
- - Lake Murray (South Carolina)
- - San Carlos Lake (Arizona) (date might be wrong?)
- 1931 - Lake Merwin (Washington)
- - Lake of the Ozarks (Missouri)
- 1933 - Prettyboy Reservoir (Maryland)
- some time between 1933-1936 (1935 probably?)- Sand Lake and Mud Lake (South Dakota)
- 1934 - Pymatuning Reservoir (Pennsylvania/Ohio)
- 1935 - Lake Springfield (Illinois)
- 1936 - Lake Mead (Nevada/Arizona)
- - Rye Patch Reservoir (Nevada)
- - Wheeler Lake (Alabama)
- 1937 - Big Stone Lake (South Dakota/Minnesota)
- 1938 - Crab Orchard Lake (Illinois)
- - Lake Havasu (California/Arizona)
- 1939 - Guntersville Lake (Alabama)
- - Quabbin Reservoir (Massachussetts)
- 1940 - Fort Peck Lake (Montana)
- - Sardis Lake (Mississippi)
- - Tionesta Lake (Pennsylvania)
- 1941 - Lake McConaughy (Nebraska)
- - Lake Wappapello (Missouri)
- 1942 - Banks Lake (Washington)
- - Lake DuBay (Wisconsin)
- - Fern Ridge Reservoir (Oregon)
- - Lake Marion (South Carolina)
- - Lake Moultrie (South Carolina)
- 1943 - Dale Hollow Reservoir (Tennessee/Kentucky)
- - Norfolk Lake (Arkansas)
- 1944 - Kentucky Lake (Kentucky/Tennessee)
- - Lake Texoma (Texas/Oklahoma)
- 1948 - Petenwell Lake (Wisconsin)
- - Saville Dam (Connecticut)
- - Shasta Lake (California)
- 1949 - Angostura Reservoir (South Dakota)
- - Potholes Reservoir (Washington)
- - Wickiup Reservoir (Oregon)
- 1950 - Flagstaff Lake (Maine)
- 1951 - Bull Shoals Lake (Arkansas)
- - Lake Mohave (Nevada/Arizona)
- - Castle Rock Lake (Wisconsin)
- 1952 - Lake Cumberland (Tennessee)
- - East Branch Clarion River Lake (Pennsylvania)
- - Enid Lake (Mississippi)
- - Kerr Lake (Virginia/North Carolina)
- - Lake Ouachita (Arkansas)
- 1953 - Harlan County Reservoir (Nebraska)
- - Hungry Horse Reservoir (Montana)
- - Lake Isabella (California)
- - Lavon Lake (Texas)
- - Lake Sakakawea (North Dakota)
- - Lake Sinclair (Georgia)
- - Wright Patman Lake (Texas)
- 1954 - Canyon Ferry Lake (Montana)
- - Grenada Lake (Mississippi)
- - Harris Station Dam (Maine)
- - Lake Strom Thurmond (South Carolina/Georgia)
- 1955 - Lewisville Lake (Texas)
- - Pepacton Reservoir (New York)
- 1956 - Lake Elwell (Montana)
- - Lake Francis Case (South Dakota)
- - Lake Lanier (Georgia)
- - Liberty Reservoir (Maryland)
- 1957 - Lake Seminole (Georgia/Florida)
- 1958 - Lake Berryessa (California)
- - Coralville Lake (Iowa)
- - Lake Nacimiento (California)
- - Table Rock Lake (Missouri/Arkansas)
- 1959 - Lake O' the Pines (Texas)
- - Rough River Lake (Kentucky)
- 1960 - Lake Tawakoni (Texas)
- 1961 - Lewis Smith Lake (Alabama)
- - Prineville Reservoir (Oregon)
- - Lake Success (California)
- - Sutton Lake (West Virginia)
- - Weiss Lake (Alabama/Georgia)
- 1962 - Lake of Egypt (Illinois)
- - Lake Hartwell (Georgia/South Carolina)
- - Lake Kaweah (California) (there is one pixel north-east of it, I assume it's part of it)
- - Lake Oahe (North Dakota/South Dakota)
- - Pomme de Terre Lake (Missouri)
- - Trinity Lake (California)
- - West Point Lake (Georgia/Alabama)
- 1963 - Camanche Reservoir (California)
- - Lake Gaston (Virginia/North Carolina)
- - Nolin River Lake (Kentucky)
- - Ross Barnett Reservoir (Mississippi)
- - Smith Mountain Lake (Virginia)
- 1964 - Barren River Lake (Kentucky)
- - Cannonsville Reservoir (New York)
- - Flaming Gorge Reservoir (Utah/Wyoming)
- - Lake Norman (North Carolina)
- - Sangchris Lake (Illinois)
- 1965 - Allegheny Reservoir (Pennsylvania)
- - Lake Meredith (Texas)
- - Lake Monroe (Indiana)
- - Sam Rayburn Reservoir (Texas)
- - Lake San Antonio (California)
- - Shenango River Lake (Pennsylvania)
- 1966 - Lake Barkley (Kentucky/Tennessee)
- - Beaver Lake (Arkansas)
- - Millwood Lake (Arkansas)
- - Lake Powell (Arizona/Utah)
- - Salamonie Lake (Indiana)
- - Lake Sharpe (South Dakota)
- - Thomas Hill Reservoir (Missouri)
- - Toledo Bend Reservoir (Texas/Louisiana)
- 1967 - Carlyle Reservoir (Illinois)
- - Green Peter Reservoir (Oregon)
- - Lake McClure (California) (originally built in 1926)
- - Mississinewa Lake (Indiana)
- - San Luis Reservoir (California)
- 1968 - Alamo Lake (Arizona)
- - Foster Reservoir (Oregon)
- - J. Edward Roush Lake (Indiana)
- - Oroville Dam (California)
- 1969 - Green River Lake (Kentucky)
- - Lake Livingston (Texas)
- - Rathbun Lake (Iowa)
- - Lake Red Rock (Iowa)
- - Stockton Lake (Missouri)
- 1970 - Bowman-Haley Lake (North Dakota)
- - Lake Ray Hubbard (Texas)
- - Lake Shelbyville (Illinois)
- - Starvation Reservoir (Utah)
- 1971 - Don Pedro Reservoir (California) (originally built in 1923)
- 1973 - Cave Run Lake (Kentucky)
- - Raystown Lake (Pennsylvania)
- - Rend Lake (Illinois)
- 1974 - Brookville Lake (Indiana)
- - Strawberry Reservoir (Utah)
- 1975 - Lake Koocanusa (Montana)
- 1977 - Saylorville Lake (Iowa)
- 1978 - Clinton Lake (Illinois)
- - New Melones Lake (California) (originally built in 1926)
- - William H Harsha Lake (Ohio)
- 1977 - Lake Bob Sandlin (Texas)
- 1979 - Truman Reservoir (Missouri)
- - Harris Lake (North Carolina)
- 1980 - Patoka Lake (Indiana)
- 1981 - Falls Lake (North Carolina)
- 1983 - Mark Twain Lake (Missouri)
- 1987 - Lake Ray Roberts (Texas)
- 1991 - Jim Chapman Lake (Texas)
- -Mexico-
- 1916 - Boquilla Dam / Lake Toronto (Chihuahua)
- 1930 - Don Martín Dam (Coahuila)
- 1946 - Mars R. Gómez Dam (Tamaulipas)
- 1971 - Las Adjuntas / Vicente Guerrero Dam (Tamaulipas)
- -El Salvador-
- 1976 - Cerrón Grande Dam (Chalatenango/Cuscatlán/Cabañas)
- 1983(?) - 15 de Septiembre Dam (San Vicente/Usulután/San Miguel)
- -Honduras-
- 1985 - Embalse Francisco Morazan/El Cajón Dam (Cortés/Comayagua/Yoro)
- -Panama-
- 1907 through 1913 - Gatun Lake (Colón/Panamá Oeste)
- 1935 - Alajuela Lake (Colón/Panamá)
- 1976 - Bayano Lake (Panamá)
- -Haiti-
- 1957 - Lake Peligre (Centre)
- -=South America=-
- -Venezuela-
- 1957 - Guárico Reservoir (Guárico)
- 1961 - Las Macagua Reservoir (Bolívar)
- 1963 - Las Majaguas Reservoir (Portugesa)
- 1964 - Camatagua Reservoir (Aragua)
- 1969 - Guri Reservoir (Bolívar)
- 1983 - Tucupido Dam (Barinas/Portugesa)
- - Tiznados Reservoir (Guárico)
- 1988 - Masparro Reservoir (Barinas)
- 2006 - Caruachi Reservoir (Bolívar)
- I CAN'T FIND THE DATES BUT PROBABLY AFTER THE 40-50'S
- Playa de Piedra Reservoir (Guárico)
- El Pao Reservoir (Cojedes)
- Tule Reservoir (Zulia)
- Manuelote Reservoir (Zulia)
- Tocoma Reservoir (Bolívar) - this one isn't even finished apparently, it's been put on hold for like 2 decades now, sometime in the 2000's probably
- -Suriname-
- 1965 - Brokopondo Reservoir (Brokopondo)
- -Brazil-
- 1908 - Ribeirão das Lajes Reservoir (Rio de Janeiro)
- 1937 - Billings Reservoir (São Paulo)
- 1942 - Coremas and Mãe d'Água (Paraíba)
- 1957 - Peixoto Dam (Minas Gerais)
- 1958 - Poço da Cruz Reservoir (Pernambuco)
- 1961 - Represa Três Marias (Minas Gerais)
- 1962 - Represa do Jurumirim (São Paulo)
- 1963 - Furnas Dam (Minas Gerais)
- 1966 - Represa da Graminha (São Paulo)
- 1972 - Represa Ponte Nova (São Paulo)
- 1973 - Ilha Solteira Dam (São Paulo)
- 1978 - Água Vermelha (São Paulo/Minas Gerais)
- - Represa de Paraibuna (São Paulo)
- - São Simão Dam (Goiás/Minas Gerais)
- 1980 - Itumbiara Dam (Goiás/Minas Gerais)
- 1981 - Represa Jaguari (São Paulo)
- 1982 - Sobradinho Reservoir (Bahia)
- 1983 - Armando Ribeiro Gonçalves (Minas Gerais)
- 1984 - Tucuruí Dam (Pará)
- - Itaipu Dam (Paraná) (also in Paraguay)
- 1987 - Nova Ponte Dam (Minas Gerais)
- 1985 - Pedra do Cavalo Dam (Bahia)
- 1988 - Luiz Gonzaga Dam (Bahia/Pernambuco)
- 1989 - Balbina Dam (Amazonas)
- 1998 - Serra da Mesa Dam (Goiás)
- 1999 - Eng Sérgio Motta Dam (São Paulo)
- - Manso Dam (Mato Grosso)
- 2006 - Represa Capim Branco (Minas Gerais)
- -Uruguay-
- 1945 - Rincón del Bonete Lake (Tacuarembó/Durazno)
- -Paraguay-
- 1977 - Lago del Río Yguazú (Caaguazú/Alto Paraná)
- 1984 - Itaipu Dam (Alto Paraná/Canindeyú) (also in Brazil)
- 1994 - Yacyretá Dam (Itapúa) (also in Argentina)
- -Argentina-
- 1973 - El Chocón Dam (Neuquen/Río Negro)
- 1977 - Lake Barreales (Neuquen)
- - Mari Menuco Lake (Neuquen)
- 1985 - Alicurá Dam (Neuquen/Río Negro)
- 1994 - Yacyretá Dam (Corrientes) (also in Paraguay)
- -=Europe=-
- -France-
- 1961 - Lac de Serre-Ponçon (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)
- 1993 - Petit-Saut Dam (French Guiana)
- -Spain-
- 1945 - Ebro Reservoir (Cantabria/Castile and León)
- 1955 - Embalse de Benagéber (Valencia)
- 1956 - Embalse de Cíjara (Extremadura/Castile-La Mancha)
- 1958 - Encoro de Prada (Galicia)
- 1961 - Embalse de Gabriel y Galán (Extremadura)
- 1962 - García Sola Reservoir (Extremadura)
- 1966 - Mequinenza Dam (Aragon)
- 1969 - Embalse del Guadalmena (Andalusia)
- 1970 - Almendra Dam (Castile and León)
- 1974 - Encoro das Portas (Galicia)
- 1989 - Embalse de La Serena (Extremadura)
- -Germany-
- 1929 - Ismaninger Speichersee (Bavaria)
- -Estonia-
- 1956 - Narva Reservoir (Ida-Viru) (also in Russia)
- -Poland-
- 1974 - Sulejowski Reservoir (Łódź)
- 1986 - Jeziorsko (Łódź/Greater Poland)
- -Slovakia-
- 1954 - Orava (Žilina)
- -Ukraine-
- 1932 - Dnieper Reservoir (Dnipropetrovsk/Zaporizhia)
- 1956 - Kakhovka Reservoir (Kherson/Zaporizhia/Dnipropetrovsk)
- 1959 - Kremenchuk Reservoir (Poltava/Cherkasy/Kirovohrad)
- 1965 - Kamianske Reservoir (Kamianske/Poltava/Kirovohrad/Dnipropetrovsk)
- 1972 - Kaniv Reservoir (Kaniv/Cherkasy/Kiev)
- -Russia-
- 1932 - Shatskoye Vodokhranilishche (Tula)
- 1937 - Ivankovo Reservoir (Moscow/Tver)
- - Uchinskoye Vodokhranilishche (Moscow)
- 1941 - Veselovsky Reservoir (Rostov)
- Rybinsk Reservoir (Yaroslavl/Tver/Vologda)
- 1951 - Vodokhranilishche Ivinskiy Razliv (Leningrad)
- 1952 - Tsimlyansk Reservoir (Rostov/Volgograd)
- 1954 - Proletarskoye Vodokhranilishche/Proletarian Reservoir (Stavropol/Kalmykia/Rostov)
- 1956 - Narva Reservoir (Leningrad) (also in Estonia)
- - Kama Reservoir (Perm)
- 1957 - Gorky Reservoir (Ivanovo/Nizhny Novgorod)
- - Kuybyshev Reservoir (Tatarstan/Samara/Ulyanovsk)
- - Novosibirsk Reservoir (Russia)
- 1958 - Sengileyevskoye Vodokhranilishche/Sengiley Reservoir (Stavropol)
- 1961 - Volgograd Reservoir (Volgograd/Saratov)
- 1964 - Sheksna Reservoir (Vologda)
- - Votkinsk Reservoir (Udmurtia/Perm)
- 1966 - Iriklinskoye Vodokhranilishche (Orenburg)
- 1967 - Bratsk Reservoir (Irkutsk)
- - Kubanskoye Vodokhranilishche/Kuban Reservoir (Karachay-Cherkess)
- - Saratov Reservoir (Saratov/Samara/Ulyanovsk)
- - Vilyuy Dam (Sakha)
- 1972 - Krasnoyarsk Reservoir (Krasnoyarsk/Khakassia)
- 1973 - Krasnodar Reservoir (Adygea/Krasnodar)
- - Chogray Reservoir (Stavropol/Kalmykia)
- 1975 - Ust'-Khantayskoye Vodokhranilishche (Krasnoyarsk)
- - Zeya Reservoir (Amur)
- 1977 - Ust-Ilimsk Reservoir (Irkutsk)
- 1980 - Cheboksary Reservoir (Chuvashia/Mari El)
- 1981 - Nizhnekamsk Reservoir (Tatarstan/Udmurtia)
- 1985 - Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam (Tuva)
- 2002 - Kureyskoye Vodokhranilishche (Krasnoyarsk)
- -Albania-
- 1978 - Fierza Reservoir (Kukës)
- -Turkey-
- 1974 - Keban Reservoir (Elazığ)
- 1992 - Atatürk Dam (Şanlıurfa/Adıyaman)
- 1999 - Batman Dam (Batman/Diyarbakır)
- 2005 - Yamula Dam (Kayseri)
- -Azerbaijan-
- 1953 - Mingachevir Reservoir (Mingachevir/Yevlakh/Goranboy/Samukh/Shamkir/Tovuz)
- -=Africa=-
- -Egypt-
- 1971 - Lake Nasser (Aswan) (also in Sudan)
- some time after the 1990's - Toshka Lakes
- -Sudan-
- 1937 - Jebel Aulia Dam (Al Gutaina)
- 1964 - Khashm el-Girba Dam (Kassala)
- 1966 - Roseires Reservoir (Blue Nile)
- 1971 - Lake Nasser (Northern) (also in Egypt)
- -Burkina Faso-
- 1947 - Loumbila Dam (Plateau-Central)
- 1988 - Lake Kompienga (Centre-Est)
- 1994 - Oumarou Kanazoe Dam (Centre)
- 2004 - Barrage de Ziga (Centre-Nord)
- 2010 - Barrage de Soum (Nord)
- -Ivory Coast-
- 1959 - Ayamé Reservoir (Comoé)
- 1972 - Koussou Lake (Yamoussoukro/Vallée du Bandama/Sassandra-Marahoué/Lacs)
- 1979 - Taabo Dam (Laguines)
- 1980 - Lake Buyo (Bas-Sassandra/Sassandra-Marahoué/Montagnes)
- -Ghana-
- 1965 - Lake Volta (Volta/Eastern/Oti/Bono East/Northern/Savannah)
- 1985 - Tono Dam (Upper East)
- 2013 - Bui Dam (Savannah/Brong Ahafo)
- -Nigeria-
- there's this one reservoir in the north but I legit can't find any sort of information about it
- -Ethiopia-
- 1960 - Koka Reservoir (Oromia)
- -Kenya-
- 1974 - Kamburu Dam (Embu/Machakos)
- 1981 - Masinga Dam (Embu/Machakos)
- -Mozambique-
- 1968 - Lake Chicamba (Manica)
- 1974 - Cahora Bassa (Tete)
- -Zambia-
- 1959 - Lake Kariba (Southern) (also in Zimbabwe)
- 1977 - Itezhi-Tezhi Dam (Central)
- -Zimbabwe-
- 1959 - Lake Kariba (Matabeleland North/Mashonaland West) (also in Zambia)
- 1960 - Lake Mutirikwe (Masvingo)
- 1976 - Lake Manyame (Mashonaland West)
- -Namibia-
- 1963 - Hardap Dam (Khomas)
- -South Africa-
- 1922 - Darlington Dam/Lake Mentz (Eastern Cape)
- 1938 - Vaal Dam (Gauteng/Free State)
- 1951 - Voëlvlei Dam (Western Cape)
- 1957 - Floriskraal Dam (Western Cape)
- 1970 - Bloemhof Dam (North West/Free State)
- 1973 - Lake Jozini/Pongolapoort Dam (KwaZulu-Natal)
- 1980 - Theewaterskloof Dam (Western Cape)
- 1983 - Brandvlei Dam (Western Cape)
- -=Asia=-
- -Syria-
- 1974 - Lake Assad (Raqqa)
- -Iraq-
- 1956 - Lake Tharthar (Al Anbar)
- 1959 - Lake Dukan (Sulaymaniyah)
- -Kazakhstan-
- 1966 - Bukhtarma Reservoir (East Kazakhstan)
- 1969 - Aydar Lake/Chardara Dam (Turkistan) (also in Uzbekistan)
- 1970 - Kapchagay Reservoir (Almaty)
- -Uzbekistan-
- 1969 - Aydar Lake/Chardara Dam (Turkistan) (also in Kazakhstan)
- -Tajikistan-
- 1959 - Kayrakkum Reservoir (Tajikistan)
- -India-
- 1934 - Stanley Reservoir (Tamil Nadu)
- 1938 - Krishna Raja Sagara (Karnataka)
- 1953 - Tungabhadra Dam (Karnataka)
- 1955 - Bhavanisagar Dam (Tamil Nadu)
- 1957 - Hirakud Dam (Odisha)
- 1958 - Gambheeri Reservoir (Rajasthan)
- 1959 - Palitana Dam (Gujarat)
- - Panchet Reservoir (Jharkhand/West Bengal) (note: this might also be the Maithon Reservoir but misplaced a bit further south, I'm not sure)
- 1977 - Sriram Sagar Project (Andhra Pradesh/Telangana)
- -China-
- 1943 - Supung Lake (Liaoning) (also in North Korea)
- 1958 - Dahuofang Reservoir (Liaoning)
- 1973 - Danjiangkou Reservoir (Henan/Hubei)
- -North Korea-
- 1943 - Supung Lake (North Pyongan) (also in China)
- -Indonesia-
- 1965 - Jatiluhur Lake (West Java)
- 1973 - Riam Kanan Reservoir (South Kalimantan)
- 1982 - Gajah Mungkur Dam (Central Java)
- 1988 - Cirata Lake (West Java)
- -=Oceania=-
- -Australia-
- 1949 - Lake King William (Tasmania)
- 1956 - Lake Echo (Tasmania)
- 1967 - Great Lake (Tasmania)
- 1971 - Lake Argyle (Western Australia)
- - Darwin River Dam (Northern Territory)
- 1972 - Lake Maraboon (Queensland)
- - Lake Pedder (Tasmania)
- 1974 - Lake Gordon (Tasmania)
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