Sentences with phrase «dam construction»

While many countries report on dam construction, information about more remote or isolated areas has been lacking.

It noted that such emissions are likely to increase due to a boom in dam construction fostered by the quest for new energy sources and water shortages.

European Eel The unsustainable harvest rates of European eel and diminished migration (because of dam construction around Europe) add up to a decline of at least 80 percent of the population since 1968.

«There is a tsunami of hydropower dam constructions happening here and nobody really knows about it,» said Britton Caillouette, director of «Blue Heart», a documentary that focuses on efforts to halt the hydropower plans.

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

And it might help ameliorate or avoid some of the other impacts from dam construction now coming to the surface.

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.

The Hoover Dam construction project (started in 1931) was the first construction project in the world where the workers were required to wear hard hats.

The percentage is significant, especially given the boom in dam construction around the world, Deemer added.

Despite these concerns, dam construction continues.

Two other threats — climate change and the deforestation that accompanies road building during dam construction — could amplify the severity of ecological deterioration, Anderson says.

The Clark government has also proposed that taxpayers fund hydro dam construction to subsidize power for the energy - hungry liquified natural gas plants largely owned by foreign companies.

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.

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.

Overfishing, habitat destruction, and dam construction contributed to salmon's decline, which led, in the late - nineteenth century, to a new government - sanctioned industry created to restore dwindling salmon populations: hatcheries.

Man - made include human - generated changes to the water table, including dam construction, and industrial activities involving the injection or removal of fluids from the subsurface.

The post doesn't mention the new road to the Pacific or the ethanol plant and sugarcane plantations; or the planned road from Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil to Pulcallpa, Peru and the multiple big hydro - energy dam constructions it will support; or the new Peruvian oil leases in indigenous reserves; or the BR$ 35 million worth of oil exploration in the Juruá watershed in Acre; or the Madeira River complex of big hydroelectric projects in Rondonia near Bolivia.

Narrated by award - winning actors Peter Coyote (English version) and Marcos Palmeira (Portuguese version), the documentary chronicles the inspiring work of indigenous peoples, grassroots activists, and their allies to prevent dam construction and its many impacts.

Proposed hydropower dam constructions endanger Europe's last wild rivers and some diversity hotspots, writes Umberto Bacchi of Thomson Reuters Foundation.

By raising the Brahmaputra dams construction issue during his first meeting with the new Chinese President Xi Jinping, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was following a two - pronged strategy.

The vaquita, a porpoise living in brackish waters where the Colorado River empties into the Gulf of California, is critically endangered, biologists say, depleted by fishing nets and the disruptions in the great river's flow in the 20th century from dam construction.

Systems engineers have had a hand in projects as diverse as hydropower dam construction and China's social credit system, a vast effort aimed at using big data to track citizens» behavior.

Clyfford Still, View of the Grand Coulee Dam construction site, 1936.

For precedents we may look to past experience with public works projects in general, such as dam construction.

Clyfford Still, Grand Coulee Dam construction site, 1936.

We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of presently settled land.»

The journalism program at the University of British Columbia has been doing fine work, with a recent package on environmental and labor problems related to shrimp farming in Southeast Asia (essentially the flip side of what the Pace team found in Belize) and now — accompanying a print article in The New York Times — a a video report on the impact of Brazil's latest wave of dam construction on indigenous tribes in the Amazon River basin.

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.

Combining data on precipitation, topography, habitat changes, dam construction, and pollution, the researchers created detailed maps of the threats to rivers around the world.

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

Tunisia scores 65 per cent, and has lost an estimated 19 000 hectares of natural wetlands because of dam construction.

The team found that river flows and waterbird numbers were closely linked, indicating reduced water flow due to dam construction and water diversion for irrigation was the primary reason for the long - term declines in waterbirds in the Murray - Darling Basin.

The authors caution that Amazonian forests and reserves still face a barrage of threats, from dam construction and mining to wildfires and droughts intensified by global warming, and direct invasions of indigenous lands.

But now, with fears about how climate change may affect water flows in the future, the goal of creating reservoirs is once more appealing, and dam construction is on the rise.»

During the ZITF, Zinwa will showcase its operations such water treatment, dam construction, borehole drilling and catchment management issues.

There are no longer regular boat services from Muang Ngoi to Luang Prabang due to dam construction, but it is possible (for now) to get a boat as far as Nong Kiaow.

In these images, the dam construction is severely imposing upon the landscape but despite the activity the mountainous banks of the river rise above all in the background of the photographs.

Grand Coulee Dam construction was begun in 1933 and completed in 1941.

«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.

He held his first exhibition in Stockholm in 1950, where he worked briefly as a design engineer, followed by his first exhibition in Pakistan three years later in Warsak, near Peshawar, where Gulgee was involved in a dam construction project on the Kabul River.

Initially drafted in 2003 with the support and input of NGOs, the bill had been changed so much by the time it first arrived in parliament in 2010 that 73 leading civil - society organizations said it would «open the door for irreversible destructions [of] the country's nature» by allowing land uses such as mining, urbanization, tourism facilities, dam construction, and other forms of energy development to have priority over protection.