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Sameura Dam
Sameura Dam is a 106-meter concrete gravity dam on the upper Yoshino River in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan, supplying water to all four Shikoku prefectures since the 1970s.
Sampoong Department Store collapse
The Sampoong Department Store collapse, also known as the Sampoong Collapse, destroyed the five-storey Sampoong Department Store in Seoul on 29 June 1995, killing 502 people in South Korea's deadliest disaster.
Samsung C&T Corporation (삼성물산)
Samsung C&T Corporation, known in Korean as 삼성물산, is a South Korean construction and trading company and core Samsung Group affiliate with four business groups, including Engineering & Construction.
Samuel De Champlain Bridge
The Samuel De Champlain Bridge is a 3.4-kilometer cable-stayed bridge carrying Highway 15 across the St. Lawrence River between Montreal and Brossard, opened in 2019.
Samuel-De Champlain Bridge
The Samuel-De Champlain Bridge (French: pont Samuel-De Champlain) is a cable-stayed bridge opened in 2019 across the St. Lawrence River between Montreal and Brossard, Quebec.
San Antonio Water System
The San Antonio Water System (SAWS) is the city-owned utility serving about 2 million people in San Antonio, Texas, and surrounding Bexar County. It was created in 1992.
San Diego County Water Authority
The San Diego County Water Authority is a public wholesale water agency created by California in 1944, selling water to 22 member agencies serving 3.3 million people.
San Francisco Fire Department Auxiliary Water Supply System
The San Francisco Fire Department Auxiliary Water Supply System (AWSS) is a dedicated high-pressure firefighting water network, built from 1908 to 1913 after the 1906 earthquake and fire.
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is San Francisco's public utility agency, providing the city's drinking water, wastewater, and power services through the Hetch Hetchy water system and CleanPowerSF.
San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge
The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, often called the Bay Bridge, is an 8.4-mile crossing of San Francisco Bay between San Francisco and Oakland, opened in 1936.
San Juan–Chama Project
The San Juan–Chama Project is a Bureau of Reclamation diversion, completed in 1971, that moves San Juan River water across the Continental Divide into New Mexico's Rio Grande Basin.
San Juanico Bridge
The San Juanico Bridge is a 2.16-kilometer steel bridge in the Philippines that carries the Pan-Philippine Highway across the San Juanico Strait, linking Samar and Leyte.
San Lázaro Aqueduct
San Lázaro Aqueduct (Acueducto de Rabo de Buey-San Lázaro), Roman aqueduct at Mérida, Spain, one of three supplying Emerita Augusta; three granite-and-brick pillars, 14.97 m high, survive; 16th-century Renaissance replacement; part of UNESCO site 664.
Sand engine
The Sand engine (Dutch: Zandmotor), also called the Sand Motor, is a hook-shaped artificial sand peninsula built in 2011 off the Dutch coast to protect it from erosion.
Sand filter
A sand filter is a water treatment device that passes water through a bed of sand to trap particles and microorganisms, used in municipal and household drinking water treatment.
Sandford Fleming
Sandford Fleming, also known as Sir Sandford Fleming, was a Scottish-born Canadian railway engineer and Father of Standard Time who proposed worldwide time zones in 1884.
Sanepar
Sanepar (Companhia de Saneamento do Paraná) is a Brazilian publicly listed water and sanitation utility controlled by the state of Paraná, founded in 1963, serving 345 municipalities from Curitiba.
Sanitary sewer
A sanitary sewer, also called a foul sewer, is a buried pipe network that carries domestic and industrial wastewater to a treatment plant, deliberately excluding stormwater runoff.
Sanitary sewer overflow
A sanitary sewer overflow (SSO), also known as a wet weather overflow or sewage spill, is an untreated release of sewage from a sanitary sewer system.
Sanitation in ancient Rome
Sanitation in ancient Rome comprised the aqueducts, sewers, public and private latrines, and baths that served cities of more than one million people, yet parasites like whipworm and roundworm remained widespread.
Sanitation of the Indus Valley Civilisation
The sanitation of the Indus Valley Civilisation, also called Harappan sanitation, was a Bronze Age urban drainage system built of burnt brick from roughly 2600 to 1900 BC.
Sankey Viaduct
The Sankey Viaduct, known locally as the Nine Arches, is a nine-arched brick and sandstone railway viaduct built by George Stephenson in 1830 near Earlestown, England.
Sanmenxia Dam (三门峡大坝)
The Sanmenxia Dam (三门峡大坝), also called Sanmenxia Hydropower Station, is the first large dam on the Yellow River's main stem, built in Henan Province from 1957 and completed in 1960.
Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava Valls, born 1951, is a Spanish architect, structural engineer, and sculptor known for the Alamillo Bridge in Seville and the Oculus in New York.
São Francisco River Integration Project
The São Francisco River Integration Project (Projeto de Integração do Rio São Francisco) is a Brazilian inter-basin water transfer supplying semi-arid Northeast states, intended to reach 12 million people.
Sapperton Canal Tunnel
The Sapperton Canal Tunnel is a 3,490 m canal tunnel on the Thames & Severn Canal in Gloucestershire, England, opened in 1789 as the longest canal tunnel in the United Kingdom.
Sarah Mildred Long Bridge
The Sarah Mildred Long Bridge is a double-deck vertical-lift bridge carrying US Route 1 Bypass and rail across the Piscataqua River between Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Kittery, Maine.
Sardar Sarovar Dam (સરદાર સરોવર ડેમ)
The Sardar Sarovar Dam is a 163 m high concrete gravity dam on the Narmada river in Gujarat, India, part of a project supplying irrigation, drinking water, and power.
Sardoba Reservoir
The Sardoba Reservoir is an off-channel irrigation reservoir in Sirdaryo region, Uzbekistan, built from 2010 to 2017, whose dam failed on 1 May 2020, flooding both Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
Sasago Tunnel ceiling collapse
The Sasago Tunnel ceiling collapse killed nine people on 2 December 2012, when concrete ceiling panels fell onto the Chūō Expressway tunnel in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.