Sentences with phrase «hydropower dam construction»

So, unless you can provide figures showing that hydro generating capacity as a proportion of total electricity generating capacity is growing faster now than ever before, I still say the claim of «unprecedented boom in hydropower dam construction is underway» is BS.

An unprecedented boom in hydropower dam construction is underway, primarily in developing countries and emerging economies.

«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.

Not exact matches

Her team documented 142 hydropower dams that are operating or under construction on headwaters in the western Amazon Basin, and another 160 that are under consideration.

Nearly 100 hydropower dams are planned for construction along tributaries off the river's 2,700 - mile stretch, which flows through Burma, China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia.

Such seismically active regions are exactly where hundreds of dams 15 meters or higher are either under construction or being planned, most of them to supply hydropower to India or China.

The construction and operation of over 1 million dams globally (Lehner et al. 2011) has provided a variety of services important to a growing human population (e.g., hydropower, flood control, navigation, and water supply), but has also significantly altered water, nutrient, and ecosystem dynamics and fluxes in river networks.

Kenyan Goldman Prize winner Ikal Angelei has dedicated her life to fighting the construction of the Gibe 3 Dam, one of Africa's largest hydropower projects.