Economic Evaluation of Smaguli dam under the light of Geographic Factors

Abstract

Dam especially small dams have enormous impact on socio-economic aspects. Kurdistan region of Iraq has a plan to construct many dams for socio-economic purposes. There are different ideas about the impact of small dams; this work takes Smaquli Dam as an example to evaluate changes after completion of the dam in the Smaquli Village. In this paper, questioner and interview with compression and analyzing methods were used to obtain clear vision about the study area. The main question in this paper is that, what are the main Economic-Geographic changes in the study area after completion of the dam? The paper gives information about, the study area, and the main changes that existed after construction of the dam. The paper has found that, because of the dam the area has enough amount of water to produce 1,134 Ton of Corn (Maize), the population size in this area increased by 14%, tourism sector flourished by more than 17000%, the price of land rose by 200%