Sentences with phrase «construction of dams in»

Halt the construction of dams in Australia?

This is a powerful documentary about the excessive construction of dams in the United States over the last 100 years, and how disruptive they have been to the environment, and to the life cycles of certain aquatic species (salmon, especially).

(06/29/2005) Following the construction of a dam in Tanzania, the Kihansi Spray Toad sits on the brink of extinction.

Not exact matches

One lawmaker said it was the most important development in Nevada since the construction of the Hoover Dam southeast of Las Vegas during the Great Depression

In this regard, it is seeking partnerships to extract and process the massive deposits of bauxite at Nyinahin and Kibi, with a potential value of $ 460 billion, to fund the construction of thousands of kilometres of railway lines, roads, provide irrigation facilities and dams, and construct bridges, among others.

It is arguably the first singularly big development project to be completed by president Kagame's government, and is set to be the first of many with a further four Large Dams in the immediate pipeline and the Bugasera Airport under construction.

The episode is not unique; just over a week ago, on October 29th, 218 workers shut down two construction sites of the Lom Pangar Hydroelectric Dam Project in eastern Cameroon.

Over the past year, improvements to the 182nd Street dam on the Bronx River have been taking place, in preparation for construction of the -LSB-...]

«I was here sometime in July on the Accounting to the people tour, we cut sod for the construction of the Bolga - Bawku road and the Tamne Dam.

«We must therefore ask pertinent questions on how much the Federal Government allocates for rehabilitation of dams, construction of irrigation facilities and storage facilities to boost agriculture in the southwest.

«Apart from the herdsmen, there is also the need for us to use our influence to secure assistance from Federal Government in the area of provision of irrigation facilities, construction of dams to encourage irrigation as being done in other parts of the country.

The Federal Government has approved N497 million for the construction of the Ijegu Yala Dam in Yala Local Government Area of Cross River.

Wilson resident Marek Kobialka, a construction engineer with the Niagara Power Project, recently received, on behalf of the New York Power Authority (NYPA), an award from the Western New York Chapter of the American Concrete Institute (ACI - WNY) for superior work practices related to the repair and restoration of the dam face of the Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant (featured in the background).

The One - Village - One - Dam policy is one of the Akufo - Addo administration's flagship programmes aimed at ensuring all year - round agriculture in the three regions of the north, through the construction of irrigation dams in every village in that part of the country.

«Apart from the herdsmen, there is also need for us to use our influence to secure assistance from the federal government in the area of construction of dams for irrigation as well as storage facilities» he said.

In 2014, FERC granted New York City a 2 - year license to build a hydroelectric plant at the Cannonsville Dam, Preliminary work in 2015 led to the discovery of subsurface conditions, necessitating repairs and an extension of the deadline for the start of constructioIn 2014, FERC granted New York City a 2 - year license to build a hydroelectric plant at the Cannonsville Dam, Preliminary work in 2015 led to the discovery of subsurface conditions, necessitating repairs and an extension of the deadline for the start of constructioin 2015 led to the discovery of subsurface conditions, necessitating repairs and an extension of the deadline for the start of construction.

Faisal Hossain of Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville and colleagues looked at the magnitude of the biggest storms near 633 of the world's largest dams before and after construction.

In 1928, President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill authorizing $ 175 million for the construction of the Boulder Dam (later rechristened the Hoover Dam) outside of Las Vegas, and the town went wild.

But as countries seek new energy sources to drive economic growth, a surge in dam construction on the eastern flank of the Andes could further threaten fish migration and sediment flows, Elizabeth Anderson, a conservation ecologist at Florida International University in Miami, and colleagues warn today in Science Advances.

In Central America there are more than 300 dams of varying sizes planned or under construction.

In fact, the proposed dam borders the «core protected area» of the Upper Yangtze Native and Rare Fish Reserve — an area set aside to mitigate some of the impacts of the construction of Three Gorges Ddam borders the «core protected area» of the Upper Yangtze Native and Rare Fish Reserve — an area set aside to mitigate some of the impacts of the construction of Three Gorges DamDam.

The central government's Ministry of Environmental Protection responded in June, suspending the Xiaonanhai project pending further review — along with two other nearby dams in the Jinsha River already under construction.

Pollution, urbanization, and construction of dams and reservoirs are jeopardizing the water supply for nearly 80 percent of the global population (pdf), an international team of environmental scientists concluded in a comprehensive study published in September.

The long, slow death of the baiji was caused by overfishing, construction of the Three Gorges Dam and other changes in the vicinity of the Yangtze River (where more than 10 percent of humanity makes its home), rather than hunting or other direct human impacts.

Water and Power «The Roosevelt Dam in southern Arizona, recently completed, contains over 350,000 cubic yards of masonry, and forms the largest artificial reservoir now in existence; the construction of this reservoir required the expenditure of nearly $ 300,000 in wagon roads alone, to make the region accessible and to replace public roads submerged by the artificial lake.»

The construction of large dams is increasingly controversial with both environmentalists and engineers because of past engineering debacles, refugee problems and disruption caused by changes in river flows.

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.

Atlantic salmon are indigenous to the area but became threatened with extinction in the 1800s as a result of dam construction, overfishing and pollution.

A landmark 30 - year - long UNSW Sydney study of wetlands in eastern Australia has found that construction of dams and diversion of water from the Murray - Darling Basin have led to a more than 70 per cent decline in waterbird numbers.

Early declines, dating as far back as the 1700s, were probably the result of overharvesting in the rivers, dam construction blocking access to spawning grounds, and water pollution.

In Malaysia, tribespeople blockaded the construction site of a new dam.

The dam is slated for construction on the Xingu River in the midst of the Amazon rainforest and upstream from a national park that is home to indigenous groups.

At present, the original population of Linaria salzmanii has disappeared due to the construction of the Canales dam, and Linaria becerrae is now considered exclusive of the west of the province of Málaga, where it lives in areas bordering the protected natural area of the Desfiladero de los Gaitanes, a well - known tourist site.

More than 600 large dams have been built or are in some stage of construction or planning in the geologically active Himalayan Mountains, but many are probably not designed to withstand the worst earthquakes that could hit the region, according to a number of seismologists and civil engineers.

An amendment proposed in Brazil may soon make it impossible to challenge the construction of hydroelectric dams, like this one on the Madeira River.

Emplacement in Egypt of barrages in the 1800s, construction the Aswan Low Dam in 1902, and the Aswan High Dam in 1965 has since altered water flow and distribution of nourishing organic - rich soil in the delta.

There is an additional looming danger of considerable importance: Ethiopia, itself energy - poor and undergoing drought conditions, is shortly (in 2017) to complete construction of the largest hydro - electric dam in Africa, its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERdam in Africa, its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERDam (GERD).

Primates have been relatively safe in the Amazon basin, but climate change and the construction of large hydro - electric dams and the rise of enormous soy plantations in the area are taking a toll on primates.

The site in the south - east of Turkey (Diyarbakir province) is at risk from the construction of the Ilisu Dam.

Zinwa will also use the ZITF platform to give an update to stakeholders and stand visitors regarding the ongoing Command Water Harvesting Programme in which the authority is drilling boreholes and assisting in the construction of weirs and repair of small dams that serve rural communities around Zimbabwe.

The Amazon rainforest is seen near construction of the Belo Monte dam complex in the Amazon basin on June 15, 2012, near Altamira, Brazil.

Not even out of his twenties yet, the writer is a Cornell and AFI grad whose first script, a compelling Western called «The West Is Dead,» about a band of outlaws set against the construction of the Hoover Dam, saw him make the Black List in 2008, and he was subsequently snapped up by CAA.

But this desert oasis, which blossomed with the construction of the nearby Hoover Dam, also has plenty of history and off - the - beaten path experiences to discover, especially if you wander off the Strip and into the Fremont Street Experience in the old downtown.

Their epic passage has since been obstructed by poachers that have left sturgeon critically endangered in the wild, along with the construction of the pair of hydroelectric dams at the Iron Gates, the scenic 83 - mile long stretch of the Danube separating Serbia on one side with Romania on the opposite bank.

They are a kind of democratic organization in which the farmers whose fields are fed by the same water source, meet regularly to coordinate plantings, to control the distribution of irrigation water and to plan the construction and maintenance of canals and dams, as well as to organize ritual offerings and subak temple festivals.

Clyfford Still, Landscape view of the Grand Coulee Dam construction in Washington, 1936.

To share a peek at some of my findings, I am spotlighting a series of photographs Clyfford Still created at the Grand Coulee Dam construction site in 1936.

In 1936, Still visited the construction site of the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River northwest of Pullman and while there he created at least 10 photographs, a few sketches and two paintings.

«The House at Kawinal,» the artist's first solo exhibition in the US, will present a recent performance for video, Life in His Mouth, Death Cradles Her Arm (2016), together with a new body of sculptures inspired in part by the artist's research into the effects of the construction of the Chixoy Hydroelectric Dam in Guatemala in the early 1980s.

His Three Gorges Project series consists of huge paintings and is one such example: in this work, Liu chronicles not only the construction of the highly controversial dam along the Yangtze River but also the trying human cost of the project.