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