Sentences with phrase «from dam construction»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

A local construction worker, suspended from a crane, rescues a woman who fell into the Des Moines River near the Center Street Dam in downtown Des Moines, Iowa Tuesday, June 30, 2009.

Iluka said on Wednesday its senior operational team had since conducted further inspections of the dams, received more information from Sierra Rutile about their construction and enlisted the help of an independent geotechnical consultant, Knight Piesold.

«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.

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).

«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.

Additionally, the authors» modeled seven potential explanations of declining range, including date of construction of the nearest dam, dry season river discharge, distance from the edge of the former range and length of river section to identify the factors responsible for the decline.

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.

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.

Both fish species swim downstream during droughts and return during normal water flow, but the construction of dams, or stream fragmentation, prevents fish from returning upstream.

Fewer than 800 individuals remain, and the construction of a dam and road threaten the prime habitat of the ape, which is distinguished from its cousins by, among other things, frizzier hair and a taste for caterpillars.

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

With over a dozen Class IV rapids and a spectacular jaunt through a gorge twice the depth of the Grand Canyon, Mountain Travel Sobek offers a 120 - mile trip that, due to the construction of a nearby dam, may be impossible to experience a few years from now.

Beyond Architecture, with images selected from the entire Stoller archive of more than 50,000 images, includes views of Post-War American factories, construction sites, hydroelectric dams and printing plants.

In the late - «60s, shortly before he died, I remember my father's excitement at finding and buying three gelatin silver prints from Margaret Bourke - White's series of images on the construction of Fort Peck Dam, near Billings, Montana.

Construction of a planned dam on the Kura (Mtkvari) River in the Turkish province of Ardahan would redirect much of the river's water from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea, leading to «an ecological and economic catastrophe» in Georgia, officials from the Georgian Green Party are cited as claiming in a recent article by the Georgian publication Democracy & Freedom Watch.

Activists Force Suspension of Construction Activists had been camping near the waterfall in protest for more than a week, the paper reported, forcing the dam company, Robshin Ltd., «to suspend its construction and evacuate its heavy equipment from the construction Construction Activists had been camping near the waterfall in protest for more than a week, the paper reported, forcing the dam company, Robshin Ltd., «to suspend its construction and evacuate its heavy equipment from the construction construction and evacuate its heavy equipment from the construction construction site.»

But IMHO in following the dam constructions and flow and sedimentation delays, it was pretty clear that for several years the Carribean was impacted by the changes to the Orinoco from huge hydroelectric projects in the region.

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.

Humans have a modified irreversibly from its orginal state a quite small portion of the earth's surface by construction of urban areas, dams, highways, etc..

Aristotelis Koskinas From MetaBunk.org, for Oroville Dam design and construction details see particularly the document: California State Water Project, Vol.

Brazil's proposed construction of what would be the third largest hydroelectric dam on the planet has drawn ire from environmental groups the world over.

Since run of river projects don't use reservoirs on the scale of the large dams, you've really only got the embedded emissions from construction to pay back before you're producing clean power.

Dam Built to Divide North Aral Sea From Southern Portion Construction was completed on the Kok - Aral Dam in 2005 and with it a 13 kilometer long dam separated the smaller North Aral Sea from the larger, saltier and more polluted southern haDam Built to Divide North Aral Sea From Southern Portion Construction was completed on the Kok - Aral Dam in 2005 and with it a 13 kilometer long dam separated the smaller North Aral Sea from the larger, saltier and more polluted southern hFrom Southern Portion Construction was completed on the Kok - Aral Dam in 2005 and with it a 13 kilometer long dam separated the smaller North Aral Sea from the larger, saltier and more polluted southern haDam in 2005 and with it a 13 kilometer long dam separated the smaller North Aral Sea from the larger, saltier and more polluted southern hadam separated the smaller North Aral Sea from the larger, saltier and more polluted southern hfrom the larger, saltier and more polluted southern half.

They disagree, however, on what should have been done differently to avert the flood.Coastal Road a Possible Culprit Local architect Serdar Demirkan pointed the finger at the construction of the Giresun coastal road and dam in the 1990s, saying that the road prevented rainwater and water from overflowing rivers from reaching the sea, the media - advocacy group Bianet reported.

According reports from Al Jazeera in Brazil, the tribespeople have so far been effective in halting the dam's construction, to point.

The name of the city originated from two parallel waterfalls located in the nearby Snake River Canyon, which have since merged into one waterfall due to the construction of the Twin Falls dam.