Sentences with phrase «as small dams»

While in the Peace Corp, Rich helped dozens of villages, in Sakolnakorn Province, design and build infrastructure projects such as small dams and spillways.

Today, there is also a growing interest in small hydro facilities such as small dams that generate less than 10 megawatts of power and pumped storage hydroelectric plants.

Not exact matches

Think of Kinder Morgan's Trans - Mountain Pipeline from Edmonton to refineries and terminals in B.C. and Washington and branch lines carrying heartland oil to the Gulf Coast operated by Enbridge and ExxonMobil as small leaks in the great oil dam.

He said the number is part of the total of 320 small dams and dug - outs planned to be constructed in 64 districts in northern Ghana as part of the government's One - District - One - Dam project.

A total of five hundred and seventy (570) dams are to be constructed in the three northern regions this year as part of the NPP Government's manifesto pledge to facilitate community - owned and managed small - scale irrigation facilities across the country, popularly known as «One Village One Dam.»

As streams, rivers and watersheds absorb more small dams, however, surprisingly few scientific studies have considered their environmental impact, and policies or regulations are lacking or largely inconsistent.

As a result, many private landowners and corporations can leverage easier environmental permitting to build small hydropower dams for a fraction of the time and cost of large dams.

RoR dams can cause a spike in methylmercury in two ways — they can form small reservoirs, called headponds, which flood soil and create slow - flowing, low - oxygen environments; or they can create higher temperatures in the stream as a result of the reduced flow conditions when portions of the stream are diverted to the turbines.

PNNL's improved Sensor Fish is a small tubular device filled with sensors that analyze the physical stresses fish experience as they pass through dams and other hydropower structures.

There so fxxxing small and low to the ground is that you'll catch yourself looking around in circles as your walking., Trying to be sure there with you, while there under your feet the whole dam time.....

Surrounded by indigenous gardens, both the garden view unit and kingfisher cottage look on to a natural dam that is buzzing with an abundance of birdlife, and small game such as leguaan, monkeys, duiker, badgers, bushbabies, mongoose, etc..

Because of the long exposure time required to make this photograph, the water rushing over a small dam appears as a glassy blur.

A third component consists of a series of stainless steel trays on low plinths, packed with small, single - use items, such as: condoms, latex gloves, dental dams, external catheters and pressure - reducing heel cups, designed to absorb, contain, and distribute their contents.

As an aside, I'd love to see an increase in the small - scale harnessing of hydo - electricity by Power Companies, or by anyone else — there's such an older small Pacific Power plant right up the road from me which has a small dam about 1200 ′ higher, actually located in a Wilderness Area — the original Wilderness boundaries were expanded a little.

While conventional hydropower will continue to grow as dams are completed in China, Brazil and a scattering of other countries, including Ethiopia, Malaysia, and Turkey, there exists enormous potential for non-conventional hydroelectricity generation from tidal and wave projects, as well as from small in - stream projects that will not require new dams.

I describe a recent resurgence in the construction of hydroelectric dams, both large and small, around the world, spurred, in substantial part, by their newfound description as a form of «clean energy» capable of mitigating the greenhouse gas emissions largely responsible for anthropogenic contributions to global climate change.

MONY has also been active in helping communities, such as its financial assistance, along with large and small banks, in building a $ 28 million hydroelectric dam project in Massachusetts in 1976.

Dental dams are small sheets of latex rubber that act as a shield between the vagina and the mouth.