Sentences with phrase «irrigation dam project»

The Tamne Irrigation dam project has been on the wish list of the people of Bawku and surrounding towns since the 1970's.

President Mahama, also inaugurated an expanded water project for Bawku and other towns which are water starved and cut the sod for a three thousand hectare irrigation dam project.

«Then also huge irrigation dam project when completed will provide more than 5,000 jobs.

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Perhaps inevitably, dam projects have thus frequently created poverty and damaged ecologies, for example by causing displacement and by undermining useful ecological phenomena like annual flooding that spreads irrigation water and fertile soil.

And Turkey disputes dam and irrigation projects for the Tigris and Euphrates.

The administration of H.E John Dramani Mahama has really brought us hope with the many infrastructural projects dotted across the length and breadth of the kingdom such as the various Community Day Senior High School projects at various stages of completion such the Sapeliga SHS, Binduri SHS and Garu SHS, the Tamme Irrigation Dam, the Garu District Hospital, the Bawku Town Water system, the massive rural Electrification Expansion projects etc We are also glad that the Eastern Corridor Fiber Optic Cable which extends to the Bawku was successfully laid awaiting the next phase.

The hostel was among a number of projects the president commissioned and inspected during a two - day tour that also saw him cut the sod for work to begin on the Bolgatanga - Bawku - Pulmakom Road and the Tamne Irrigation Dam in the Garu - Tempane District among others.

Senegal's outbreak of schistosomiasis has been blamed on several development projects in the basin of the Senegal River, including the building of two dams and the construction of irrigation schemes.

Dams and irrigation projects upriver in Africa increase the population of malarial mosquitoes downriver.

Similar conflicts are looming throughout the south and west, where efforts to protect the declining populations of freshwater fish, including salmon, sturgeon and the most recently listed species, the Californian delta smelt, are going to affect irrigation, the dredging of rivers and navigation, and projects to build dams and hydro - electric plants.

«Over the past 60 years, a myriad of dams have been built either to provide hydroelectric power, or for irrigation purposes, or as flood protection,» says Bernhard Lehner, a professor in McGill University's Department of Geography and the research director of the project.

«Five years in the making, Water is at once Burtynsky's most detailed and expansive project to date, with images of the 2010 Gulf oil spill, step wells in India, dam construction in China, aquaculture, farming, and pivot irrigation systems,» said Susan M. Taylor, Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Shibata is regarded as the preeminent Japanese contemporary landscape photographer, concentrating on civil engineering projects such as dams, waterfalls, and irrigation sluices.

Data on water irrigation efficiency for surface water projects — that is, dams that deliver water to farmers through a network of canals — show that crop usage of irrigation water never reaches 100 percent simply because some irrigation water evaporates, some percolates downward, and some runs off.

They plan, design and oversee construction and maintenance of building structures and infrastructure, such as roads, railways, airports, bridges, harbours, dams, irrigation projects, power plants, and water and sewerage systems.

Managed multiple large scale projects at different stages, including irrigation, pipeline, water and sewage, harbors, dams and channels.