Sentences with phrase «from small dams»

Farms and cities siphon most of the river's water before it reaches Mexico, but on March 23, under a binational agreement, U.S. and Mexican officials unleashed an eight - week «pulse flow» from a small dam on the border to help restore the delta.

Not exact matches

Iranian hackers infiltrated the computer system at a small dam in a quiet village 20 miles from New York City in 2013, according to a report on Monday.

Think of Kinder Morgan's Trans - Mountain Pipeline from Edmonton to refineries and terminals in B.C. and Washington and branch lines carrying heartland oil to the Gulf Coast operated by Enbridge and ExxonMobil as small leaks in the great oil dam.

The grower can control the spread of water in sloping gardens with small dams made from soil or sections of two - by - fours.

President Akufo - Addo says the government will commence processes to construct 192 small dams in various selected districts of the country from 2018.

Iranian hackers infiltrated the control system of a small dam less than 20 miles from New York City two years ago, sparking concerns that reached to the White House, according to former and current U.S. officials and experts familiar with the previously undisclosed incident.

With colleagues from NIVA, Norwegian Public Roads Administration, Norwegian University of Life Sciences and University of Copenhagen, Ranneklev and Meland collected plants, frogs, sediments and minnow, a small fish, in a sedimentation dam that protects river Ljanselva at Skullerud, and Sagdammen in river Ljanselva, both in the Oslo area.

Because of the costs involved, only the smaller North Aral has been earmarked for rescue (New Scientist print edition, 4 January 2003), and several dams to stem water loss from it have been build since the mid-1990s.

«Individually, large hydropower dams will always cause greater environmental impacts, but with rapid growth of the small hydropower sector, our rivers might just suffer from many small cuts.»

After evaluating data from the field, hydrological models, and Environmental Impact Assessment reports about the small dams, Kibler and Tullos concluded that impacts of the small dams exceeded those of large dams on nine of the 14 characteristics they studied.

Maeck's team decided to take a look at methane releases from the water impoundments behind smaller dams that store water less than 50 feet deep.

Now, after decades of grim losses, the news from the Aral Sea is good: Since the dam's completion last August, the smaller, northern part of the Aral Sea has swelled by 30 percent, flooding more than 300 square miles of parched, sun - bleached seabed.

The thousands of small dams — which powered mills, forges and other industry — changed the water table, altering the plants growing nearby and eventually changing the landscape from wetlands to deeply incised, quickly flowing streams.

Coming from Washington State, which is highly dependent on large hydroelectric dams for its electricity, McMorris Rodgers is a vocal supporter of hydropower and nuclear energy and has sponsored legislation expanding the development of small hydroelectric dams nationwide — a valuable source of renewable energy.

Surveyed from 30 meters above using drones and specialized image analysis software, the site shows the unmistakable outlines of check dams, irrigation canals and cisterns feeding a patchwork of small farm fields.

Our latest came from a big sire at 28 ″ and a very small dam, maybe 20 ″.

A small umbilical hernia isn't anything to be immediately concerned about but should be corrected with time; if there have been no other umbilical hernias reported being bred from the dam or sire then it is possible that is isn't hereditary but I can not say with certainty.

This is the environment from which to relax and do activities like swimming in the dam, paddle on small boats, stargaze on a beautiful clear night, bird - watching.

As an aside, I'd love to see an increase in the small - scale harnessing of hydo - electricity by Power Companies, or by anyone else — there's such an older small Pacific Power plant right up the road from me which has a small dam about 1200 ′ higher, actually located in a Wilderness Area — the original Wilderness boundaries were expanded a little.

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..

The Grand Dixence Dam is situated on the relatively small Dixence River, but collects a large amount of water thanks to a system of water supply tunnels over 100 km long bringing water from other rivers and valleys.

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.

While conventional hydropower will continue to grow as dams are completed in China, Brazil and a scattering of other countries, including Ethiopia, Malaysia, and Turkey, there exists enormous potential for non-conventional hydroelectricity generation from tidal and wave projects, as well as from small in - stream projects that will not require new dams.

With an electricity grid supplied by hydroelectric dams across rivers, from the heat of its numerous volcanoes, and from wind and the sun, the small Central American nation expects 97 percent of its energy generation to come from renewable sources this year.

Hydropower projects encompass dam projects with reservoirs, run - of - river and in - stream projects and range from small to large scale.

Depending on how it's done (micro, small, run of river, large scale) it can be anything from a great low - carbon sustainable energy source to an environmental disaster destroying habitat, displacing people and animals, and even spewing greenhouse gases from the large ponds created behind massive dams.

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