Sentences with phrase «massive water projects»

The project could be considered a much bigger cousin of two other massive water projects, Tokyo's G - Cans underground waterway and Venice's MOSE flood control system.

This was in conjunction with their massive water projects.

Not exact matches

The administration of H.E John Dramani Mahama has really brought us hope with the many infrastructural projects dotted across the length and breadth of the kingdom such as the various Community Day Senior High School projects at various stages of completion such the Sapeliga SHS, Binduri SHS and Garu SHS, the Tamme Irrigation Dam, the Garu District Hospital, the Bawku Town Water system, the massive rural Electrification Expansion projects etc We are also glad that the Eastern Corridor Fiber Optic Cable which extends to the Bawku was successfully laid awaiting the next phase.

The report, by the independent Authorities Budget Office, says the Cuomo Administration mishandled its attempts to use $ 500 million dollars in federal Clean Water monies to help finance work on the massive Tappan Zee Bridge reconstruction, including ignoring a warning letter from the EPA that the bridge project was an inappropriate use of the revolving loan fund, which is supposed to go to communities who need to clean up pollution.

«We're looking forward to finalizing all the massive projects we've been undertaking in Chichester with the assistance of Ulster County Soil and Water and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA),» Stanley began.

Governor Cuomo's administration wants to use money from a revolving loan fund, designed to help local governments keep their sewer and water treatment systems up to date and their drinking water clean, to instead help pay for the massive Tappan Zee Bridge replacement project.

«In the case of the Oberbaum Bridge there is a massive glass facade, a shiny railing and the running water of the Spree river, all within the scanner's field of view,» says Matthew Shaw of ScanLAB Projects, a 3D - scanning company based in London.

The water «wasn't quite salt paste yet, but nothing could survive in it,» says Masood Ahmad of the World Bank, who was project leader for the massive undertaking in Kazakhstan.

California pledged on Monday to restore 80,000 acres of the depleted Sacramento - San Joaquin River Delta as part of a massive project to send fresh water from mountain streams in the north to farmers and residents in the parched south.

The goal was to determine the optimal dam height and water level in the reservoir, balancing the demands of power generation with other factors, including the massive project's negative impacts.

SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters)- California pledged on Monday to restore 80,000 acres of the depleted Sacramento - San Joaquin River Delta as part of a massive project to send fresh water from mountain streams in the north to farmers and residents in the parched south.

After managing several public - works projects in the city, upstate New York and New Jersey in the 1950's and 1960's and taking a leading role for his company in its early work on New York's massive Third Water Tunnel in the 1970's, Fox became chief executive of Grow in the early 1980's.

This will induce massive dissolution of CaCO3 in the water column as well as the sediment,... we project detectable dissolution - driven changes only by the year 2070 in the surface ocean and after 2230 and 2500 in the deep Atlantic and Pacific respectively.

I remember quite clearly that when American President Jimmy Carter launched his massive multi-pronged programs of research in the use of renewable energy (chopped off by incoming president Ronald Reagan just when it was beginning to show results), there was a project to create a very large offshore electricity generating structure using the vertical energy differential of the ocean's waters off Hawaii as the energy source.

«It is unacceptable that in nearly six years, there are still no measures in place to protect the Athabasca River from massive water diversions that leave the river dry,» wrote Danielle Droitsch, director of NRDC's Canada Project from Washington, D.C. «The Alberta government has again failed to establish critical environmental safeguards.

While the company behind the project, Enbridge, is trying to label the project a «replacement» pipeline, it would be a massive expansion that would go straight through Indigenous territory, violating treaty rights, and posing an immediate threat to water, land and way of life.

Sustainable groundwater management is essential to adapt to this massive loss of water storage and continued decline in snowpack — California is projected to lose up to 80 percent of its historic snowpack by the end of the century as temperatures continue to rise.

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The project has been fraught with massive protests and legal challenges, primarily over the threats it poses to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's water quality and burial ground sites.

While the company behind the project, Endrige, is trying to label the project a «replacement» pipeline, it would be a massive expansion that would go straight through Indigenous territory, violating treaty rights, and posing an immediate threat to water, land and way of life.

«In the past, massive projects were undertaken to distribute water round the state, but now there's not the money available to do any more big - time plumbing work.

China is delaying its construction of a massive earth - changing project that will divert billions of tons of water to its parched north, in an attempt to mitigate environmental damage.

The project is designed to move water over hundreds of kilometers, from China's central and southern regions to the north using three massive pipes.

Apparently there were issues with the electricity, water and heating in the house and workers had to to completely rewire the property adding yet more work to the massive project.