Hatta Dam

This guide to Hatta Dam covers the 1990 construction of an eighty-metre concrete wall by a French and Swiss team, opened by Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum for Hatta, a mountain exclave handed to Dubai around 1850 and separated from the rest of the emirate. It follows the calm turquoise reservoir through thirty quiet years before engineers gave it an unexpected second job, and asks you to look again at what that still water is actually doing.