Sentences with phrase «dam building on»

Children by the Salween River in Thailand, International Day of Action for Rivers 2012Hundreds of kilometers downstream from where I was this time last year, on this International Day of Action for Rivers it became clear to me that a major reason why communities in Burma and Thailand are opposed to dam building on the Salween River is because of their children.Half of those gathered on March 14 along the Salween's banks in a small village in Thailand were kids.

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From 1951 to 1952, China built the giant hydroelectric dam on the Ruhe River with help from the Soviet Union.

The Bennett Dam built by BC on the Peace River has done huge actual damage to one of the largest fresh water deltas in the world (The Peace — Athabasca Delta, UNESCO World Heritage Site).

So there's an 18 - per - cent contingency on dam construction components like the powerhouse, the dam itself and a 10 - per - cent contingency built in to non-construction components.

We must seem very strange to Christians of the Third World, for example, in talking about love but then building economic dams so that we can control those rains God sends from heaven on the just and on the unjust.

Other dams had preceded this one; m fact, in the 18th century local farmers filed a series of legal suits against the various corporations that built dams on the river.

Sadly, villages that have improved their lot in such ways are sometimes wiped out by agribusiness or by flooding caused by a huge dam built to fulfill the goals of standard, top - down, development based on the individualistic model.

On the other hand, we also don't build dams.

Hydro Quebec built that huge dam on the LaGrande, but so far its plans for even bigger dams have been stalled; across North America, people concerned about the rights of the Cree Indians, about the caribou, about the sheer existence of a vast wilderness, have scrapped and battled to rein in the project.

He showed me nine dams and ponds which had just been built with bulldozers as a start toward holding the vital water on the place.

By 1955, after only nine years of existence, the Fox River Valley Pleasure Driveway and Park District owned 180 acres of land on which eight new parks, two dams and a recreation center had been built.

Ethiopia's plans to build a multibillion dollar dam on the Nile River spurred Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi — whose country lies downstream from Ethiopia — to vow to protect Egypt's water security at all costs.

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

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WHITE PLAINS, NY — Building on the success of «Winter Wonderland,» Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino today proposed converting the reflecting pool at the base of the iconic Kensico Dam into an ice rink during the fall and winter months.

«It's not straightforward, but it's there, and would have to be compared with the costs of desalinated water and building new dams on land.»

For many Africans and Africa observers, the massive Medupi and Kusile coal plants being built by South Africa's Eskom at a cost of more than $ 20 billion, or the 6,000 - MW Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam under construction on the Blue Nile River for an estimated $ 4 billion, are hallmarks of the continent's progress toward electrification.

Washington can't, therefore, build every levee and shore up every dam — or prepare for every impact on health, ecosystems, agriculture and other areas.

That's why The Nature Conservancy is working on a plan that would invest Chongqing's dam - building money into making the other dams upstream slightly bigger.

COPENHAGEN — Revolutionizing the energy industry to achieve a target concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere of no more than 450 parts per million (ppm) would require building 17 nuclear power plants a year between now and 2030; 17,000 wind turbines a year; or two hydropower dams on the scale of Three Gorges Dam in China, according to the International Energy Agency.

Dams on the Mississippi river aren't swallowing the sandy sediment needed to build up the river's delta and protect nearby cities from flooding

A team led by Venugopalatan Ittekkot of the University of Hamburg in Germany analyzed data on nutrients such as silicates and nitrogen before and after the Iron Gates dam near the Romania - Yugoslavia border was built in the early 1970s.

This is eight times the capacity of the Aswan Dam on the Nile, and 50 per cent more than the world's current largest hydroelectric dam, the Brazilian - built Itaipu Dam on the River Paraná in ParaguDam on the Nile, and 50 per cent more than the world's current largest hydroelectric dam, the Brazilian - built Itaipu Dam on the River Paraná in Paragudam, the Brazilian - built Itaipu Dam on the River Paraná in ParaguDam on the River Paraná in Paraguay.

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.

Optimism about building a giant dam on the river Congo is unwarranted (23 May).

In western Greece, on the River Evinos, a dam 100 metres high and costing # 150 million is being built, and is expected to relieve Athens's «water siege» by 1996.

In the east tensions are rising as India expresses concerns about a spate of planned dam - building projects by China on rivers flowing into Indian territory, particularly on the mighty Brahmaputra.

Wherever possible, farmers built dams and canals to irrigate cropland; they also built terraced stone walls on hillsides to make new fields; and they drained the swamps outside Tenochtitlán to create raised fields (chinampas), one of the most highly productive agricultural systems of the ancient world.

For instance, Texas employs just seven inspectors to keep an eye on 7,400 dams, and in many states inspectors lack the authority to inspect private dams, including those built to hold back the chemical by - products of mining operations.

A previous California resources secretary proposed building bigger dams on California's rivers as a solution to the water crisis.

During the 20th century, thousands of dams were built on Mississippi River tributaries stopping the flow of fine silt, clay and other sediment from reaching the delta and seafloor to offset erosion.

The dam is one of several large hydro projects being built on tributaries of the Amazon River that are expected to damage pristine regions.

The historical land connections can reveal how much a structural change, whether that is the shifting of continents or even on a much smaller scale, like building a dam or paving a road, can influence ecosystems.

Any dam being built during this government - funded boom, as well as those already completed, must be able to withstand the strong ground shaking of an extreme earthquake, says Martin Wieland of the International Commission on Large Dams, a group of engineers that makes recommendations for structural standards.

When dams are built they have an impact not only on the flow of water in the river, but also on the people who live downstream and on the surrounding ecosystems.

Among them was the Marib Dam, built on Wadi Adhanah in the eighth century B.C.E. to help expand agriculture in this arid region; some claim it is the world's oldest dDam, built on Wadi Adhanah in the eighth century B.C.E. to help expand agriculture in this arid region; some claim it is the world's oldest damdam.

Soon after, systems scientists began assessing the feasibility of building the titanic Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River.

Boundary Dam will be the first CCS project built on a commercial - scale power station.

Turkey has been building dams upstream on the two rivers for irrigation and hydroelectricity.

Residents blame the erosion on numerous factors, including a pier built to the north and a dam installed for a man - made lake.

A dam on the valley floor, built by a Chinese company, is creating pools of stagnant water that incubate tiger mosquitoes just outside Lola's gates.

Rathje is a geotechnical earthquake engineer, meaning that she focuses on how the ground underneath everything, from buildings to roads to dams, moves in response to seismic waves.

There is strong anthropogenic pressure on the Tapanuli orangutan due to conversion of pristine forest for mining, plans to build a hydro - electric dam, hunting, and general human encroachment.

A study found that the beaver is playing an increasing part in climate change because the dams they build for shelter create shallow, stagnant ponds of water which allow biological material to build up on the bottom of the river.

For example, during a unit on «Nature's Engineers,» kids took a field trip to a stream and built their own «beaver» dam!

As we approach the item we discover it is a beaver dam, built right on the trail.

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Global inflation linked to oil is impacting imports and exports, which along with the instability of global currency volatility will result in a global liquidity trap — much like attempting to build a dam on The Amazon River before XMAS...

all of my payments are on time, & i am working on reducing credit card debt, but it seems like i'm plugging holes in a poorly built dam.