Sentences with phrase «of dam builders»
The HSAP was created between 2007 and 2010 by the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Forum (HSAF), an initiative of the International Hydropower Association (IHA), a lobbying group formed in 1995 to represent the interests of dam builders.
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If you want to see a beaver here's all it takes: Sneak out to a dam and pull a couple of logs out (easier said than done — beavers are remarkable builders).
Earlier this year Daniel Beard, the commissioner of the US Bureau of Reclamation, the world's leading dam builder for five decades, declared that «the dam building era is over».
Natural wetlands are drying out, and the only people who are happy are the builders of dams, desalination plants and aqueducts.
The dam builders have tried to address one of the problems with traditional dams by designing projects that divert water through tunnels to power turbines rather than constructing large reservoirs, and by capturing silt and sending it back into the riverbeds.
• Berta Cáceres, Honduras, who rallied the indigenous Lenca people to pressure the world's largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Ddam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca DamDam.
The Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol (HSAP) is a voluntary, non-binding auditing tool that allows dam builders to score the sustainability of their own dam projects.
In awarding the prize, the Goldman Prize committee said, «In a country with growing socioeconomic inequality and human rights violations, Berta Cáceres rallied the indigenous Lenca people of Honduras and waged a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world's largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam.&raqdam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam.&raqDam.»
They waged a successful grassroots campaign that resulted in the world's biggest dam builder pulling out of a plan to build on the Rio Blanco, which would have been terribly destructive for Indigenous communities.
Holding dam builders and financiers accountable International Rivers holds dam builders and financiers responsible for the impacts of their projects, and works to protect the rights of the people affected by them.