A. Aral River
B. Euphrates River
C. Vakhsh River
D. Caspian River
Submitted by: Adeeb Rahman
Nurek Dam, one of the world’s highest dams, located on the Vakhsh River in Tajikistan near the border with Afghanistan. An earth-fill dam, it was completed in 1980 and rises 984 feet (300 m) and includes an impervious core of concrete reaching 52 feet (16 m) under the river to bedrock.