Sentences with phrase «dam along»

Since the 1970s, when plans were first conceived to build a massive hydroelectric dam along the Xingu river in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, the forces of development have had to contest with unyielding voices of protest --

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.

Though the changes are simple but are effective, it gets redesigned front air dam along with refreshed large radiator grille and L shaped fog lamps housing.

Its front bumper is quite muscular and it houses a large perforated air dam along with a pair of dynamic fog lamps.

It has a well sculpted bumper in body color and comes integrated with an air dam along with a couple of fog lamps.

It comes with projector headlamps with daytime running LEDs and black air dam along a pair of fog lamps.

It also controls outflows from dams along boundary waters.

Ma said he hopes the new formula will prove useful to the Chinese engineers who manage the flow of water and sediment from dams along the Yellow River.

One measure, a proposal to tear down four dams along a 140 - mile stretch of Oregon's Snake River, has made farmers and hydroelectric companies livid, especially in a year of local droughts and power shortages.

McMichael spent a lot of time fishing as a boy and grew up to become a world expert on Pacific salmon, leading many of the most thorough studies to date of fish survival through dams along the Snake and Columbia rivers.

This coupled with government plans to sell parcels of national parks to private developers, the proposal of several Chinese - built dams along Koh Kong's rivers, and a recent government approval to build a titanium mine nearby Chi Phat — which could result in the possible loss of 11,000 acres of rain forest — is pretty horrifying.

This vulnerability to a less - than - needed water supply was dealt with in the US Southwest during the 20th century by constructing a water catchment and distribution system, parts of which are the dams along the Colorado River and the California Aqueduct.

In discussing growing threats to indigenous rights, both documents highlight the Brazilian government's plans to build a massive complex of up to 29 large dams along the Amazon's Tapajós River and its tributaries in the next 10 years.

In the early 2000s, Wang and a few other Chinese environmentalists intensified efforts to cancel plans for 13 large dams along the Nu - Salween River in Southwestern China.

But because of the heavy reliance on its waters, dams along the Colorado River are not going anywhere.

As official support grows for dams along the Nu river, and companies make plans to turn local forests into resorts, Yu knows he has his work cut out for him.

In 2004, Premier Wen Jiabao suspended plans for 13 dams along the undammed Nu River.

Not exact matches

Harris County officials warned residents to evacuate as they released water from overflowing reservoirs to alleviate pressure on two dams, a move that would add to flooding along the Buffalo Bayou waterway that runs through the area.

Local waste management company Tox Free Solutions has won a new contract for work at BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam mine in South Australia, along with an extension for ongoing work at Chevron's Western Australian assets, for an undisclosed sum.

And along the way, those hackers may create more havoc than a simple dam breach may suggest.

We will make substantial investments through Parks Canada to improve the highways, bridges and dams located in our National Parks and along our historic canals.

I ask why do people have to be so dam condemning of other referring to Pope Francis among other «who offer no harm to them but a common conversation in how to get along in this world.

Specifically, Commonwealth environmental water was released from Hume Dam to support in - channel, wetland and low elevation floodplain habitat along the length of the River Murray to improve the condition and promote the migration of native fish species; support waterbird habitat and breeding events; and, mobilise and export salts from the River Murray system.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, contributed to whole - of - system watering in the River Murray, providing benefits along the length of the River Murray in 2016 - 17 and contributing to flows and targeting outcomes from Hume Dam through to the Coorong.

Commonwealth environmental water, along with a number of other sources of environmental water, is being delivered to provide benefits along the length of the River Murray in 2017 - 18, contributing to flows and targeting outcomes from Hume Dam through to the Coorong.

Here, fathers teach baby birds to sing and keep baby penguins warm, along with building new dams for baby beavers.

Batavians for a Healthy River formed in 2003 to promote a healthy ecological system along the Fox River watershed in Batavia and to inform the public on the negative impact of dams and other manmade encroachments along the Fox River.

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

He's urging New York's congressional delegation to support the state's push for the commission to release water through the dam, which could help address flooding along Lake Ontario.

Once so abundance along the eastern seaboard that our rivers once «ran silver» in the spring, alewife herring populations have crashed, largely due to dams that obstruct their -LSB-...]

The Ministry signed a memo with the Chinese government for funding along the Bui Dam project, which was to start from January 2009, Ghana government was to firm the process with China and commence work with 30 % counterpart local funding.

The program, opened by a procession of the Westchester County Emerald Society Pipes and Drums, took place along the Fallen Heroes Memorial Walkway at Kensico Dam Plaza.

«Along with the Government policy of Planting for Food and Jobs, we have also initiated the policy of One Village One Dam, and I am glad to note that this policy is taking off this year, and for the three northern regions this year we expect the construction of a total of 570 dams.

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.

In 1986, Venezuela's Raúl Leoni Dam flooded 1,660 square miles (4,300 square kilometers) of land, creating the vast Lake Guri, along with a scattering of nonsubmerged land.

Nearly 100 hydropower dams are planned for construction along tributaries off the river's 2,700 - mile stretch, which flows through Burma, China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia.

Study sites were distributed along a 240 - mile stretch downstream of Glen Canyon Dam, which was completed in 1963 for water delivery and hydroelectric power needs.

In this study, Tramelli and her colleagues used the recorded waveforms from the 2012 Emilia seismic sequence to simulate a seismic sequence that triggered end - to - end earthquakes along adjacent fault patches, observing the affect of continuous ruptures on the resulting ground motion and, consequently, its impact on critical structures, such as dams, power plants, hospitals and bridges.

In Brazil, several dozen dams are planned along the Amazon, Madeira and Xingu rivers — an area that teems with more than 5,000 species of fish, and where some of the largest hydropower projects in the world are being built.

Somewhere along the upper Aragón River, between the jagged peaks of the Pyrenees and a hydropower dam, conservation biologist Madis Põdra and his colleagues will release 10 or 12 captive - born European minks (Mustela lutreola) next week into a mink's idea of heaven: a pristine patch of Spanish wilderness with 150 kilometers of waterways.

• Hadfield notes that some of the most serious flooding along the Yangtze is generated downstream of the dam, and...

Here, by reconstructing a sequence of events along the Yellow River — including a landslide that created a dam from which water built up and burst forth — Wu Qinglong and colleagues provide geological evidence for a catastrophic flood event that may be the basis of the Great Flood.

The rest of the panel, two dam experts from Holland and Denmark, and two river ecologists from Germany and Austria, recommend that for now, the Danube should be allowed to flow along its original bed.

Similarly Tehri Dam never underwent realistic simulations, asserts Gaur, who served on its oversight committee, along with civil engineer R. N. Iyengar, formerly of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.

«Our research assumes that it is not only the size of a dam but also where it is placed along the river that makes a difference.

In recent fieldwork in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, Wohl studied the wetlands and floodplains upstream of beaver dams — areas collectively called «beaver meadows» — along 27 streams draining watersheds covering more than 700 square kilometers.

She analyzed the carbon content of 29 samples of sediment collected along two of the larger waterways (one of which included remnants of 148 beaver dams, and the other had 100).

Despite a number of high - profile dam removals along America's rivers recently, allowing Glen Canyon Dam to cease operations is no small decisidam removals along America's rivers recently, allowing Glen Canyon Dam to cease operations is no small decisiDam to cease operations is no small decision.

Should we never get to some of these sights ourselves — and tours are harder to find since September 11, because authorities have discontinued public access to dams, reservoirs and other installations — Hayes brings us along for a closer look at many of them.

Some of the biggest hydroelectric dams globally that portray engineering marvel have been created along the major rivers such as the Nile and the Zambezi in Africa.