Sentences with phrase «huge dam»

But the river, overused for farming and left stagnant by huge dams, is shrivelling.

Many NGOs and church groups have worked at community development projects, but governments and global agencies have engaged in top - down development, such as huge dams, destructive of community.

It's pretty cold in winter, which allows a fair amount of snow to cover the summits, which gradually melt in summer, fueling small creeks and a river (there are huge dams insuring hydropower and regularizing the water supply some hundreds of km above).

A huge dam broke in Brazil and I didn't know it was that big, but $ 44 billion has now been... the bill's been sent to them.

Canada gave it a huge dam that flooded many of the villages and was designed to support industrial development.

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.

Huge dams are affecting water cycle and bio-regions, pursseine trawlers are affecting marine food chains, both are destroying livelihood of people based on community control of resources.

If an operator proposes a site that is too close to an earthquake fault, or too close to oceanfront that is vulnerable to a tsunami or hurricane storm surge, or downriver from a huge dam that could burst, then the NRC should reject the bid.

The huge dam, scheduled for completion in about fifteen years, will cost between $ 22 and $ 34 billion, create a reservoir 600 kilometres long and force more than a million people from their homes.

The cabin is set on the edge of a hillside overlooking a huge dam.

This western facing aspect of the house overlooks a huge dam and undulating vineyards to the bushland beyond.

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This could possibly warm ice and water behind those huge dams and result in the beginning of undercutting at the bottom part of the ice dam, as well as at the top.

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