The Black Death was a plague the spread across medieval Europe in 590CE to 1500CE. It was an infection caused by rats and then spread by fleas. The rats were carrying a lot of germs and bacteria at the time so a flea would bite the rat and then would and bite a person.
The average life expectancy of a dam is 50 years, and 25% of the dams in the Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams are now more than 50 years old.This number is projected to increase to 85% by the year 2020.he Glen Canyon Dam supplies over 5 million people with power (Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program, 2007). These two dams also have the capacity to store 32,471,000 acre-feet and 27,000,000 acre-feet of water, respectively. In order to harvest hydropower however, dams must be built.
Today, the Hoover Dam is the second highest dam in the country and the 18th highest in the world. It generates more than four billion kilowatt-hours a year -- that's enough to serve 1.3 million people! Here's how this dam stacks up against some of the biggest dams in the world. (reservoir capacity, in cubic feet)