ABSTRACT

The nature of karst presents a great variety of risks associated with the construction of dams and reservoirs. The most frequent difficulties are caverns at dam sites, land subsidence at the bottom of reservoirs, water leakage at dam sites and from reservoirs, induced seismicity as a consequence of artificial storage, endangerment of endemic fauna, and changing of local groundwater balance. Because each karst region is different individual situations are very seldom, if ever, repeated.