Sentences with phrase «hydropower dams provide»

Hydropower dams provide power to the Pacific Northwest, but in some cases, that benefit is outweighed by the damage the dams do to rivers.

Not exact matches

[97] The Akosombo Dam, built on the Volta River in 1965, along with Bui Dam, Kpong Dam, and several other hydroelectric dams provide hydropower.

Released on 16 June in Iguaçu Falls, Brazil, the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol provides a method for assessing dams in all phases, from development to operation.

In addition to providing hydropower at Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powell stores water from the upper basin states and releases it into downstream Lake Mead to ensure the upper basin states meet their obligations under the 1922 compact.

Historically, the tribal experience with increasing energy demands here has been catastrophic: tribes along the Missouri River were flooded by dams constructed to provide hydropower and flood control benefits for downstream communities.

The construction and operation of over 1 million dams globally (Lehner et al. 2011) has provided a variety of services important to a growing human population (e.g., hydropower, flood control, navigation, and water supply), but has also significantly altered water, nutrient, and ecosystem dynamics and fluxes in river networks.

So, unless you can provide figures showing that hydro generating capacity as a proportion of total electricity generating capacity is growing faster now than ever before, I still say the claim of «unprecedented boom in hydropower dam construction is underway» is BS.

Large - scale hydropower dams certainly can provide a lot of power and are a renewable resource — assuming the water source doesn't decline, an real concern with climate change but something beyond the scope of this piece.