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The biggest such project is damming the Mediterranean at the Strait of Gibraltar.

From Time Magazine Archive

I hear that the khedive's people have got news that Arabi is damming up the Sweet-water Canal.

From A Chapter of Adventures by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)