Sentences with phrase «of smaller dams»

Iranian hackers infiltrated the control system of a small dam less than 20 miles from New York City two years ago, sparking concerns that reached to the White House, according to former and current U.S. officials and experts familiar with the previously undisclosed incident.

In order to mitigate the detrimental effects of small dams, there is a «need for comprehensive planning of low - impact energy development.»

After evaluating data from the field, hydrological models, and Environmental Impact Assessment reports about the small dams, Kibler and Tullos concluded that impacts of the small dams exceeded those of large dams on nine of the 14 characteristics they studied.

For example, many of the small dams investigated in the new study were supported by the Kyoto Protocol, a 1997 agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The thousands of small dams — which powered mills, forges and other industry — changed the water table, altering the plants growing nearby and eventually changing the landscape from wetlands to deeply incised, quickly flowing streams.

Zinwa will also use the ZITF platform to give an update to stakeholders and stand visitors regarding the ongoing Command Water Harvesting Programme in which the authority is drilling boreholes and assisting in the construction of weirs and repair of small dams that serve rural communities around Zimbabwe.

The house is located on the banks of a small dam and offers accommodation in 3 double bedrooms.

Not exact matches

Think of Kinder Morgan's Trans - Mountain Pipeline from Edmonton to refineries and terminals in B.C. and Washington and branch lines carrying heartland oil to the Gulf Coast operated by Enbridge and ExxonMobil as small leaks in the great oil dam.

Seventy thousand people — enough to fill a small city — have been asked to evacuate areas that could be flooded by the nearly 11 billion gallons of water the dam holds back.

Initially the smaller dams were built in the mountains, but in 1958 Vice Premier Tan Zhenlin decreed that the dam building should be extended into the plains of China.

A dam can also be made by a dead tree falling in a river, followed by backfilling of smaller branches and stones, tumbled into place by the water.

Luckily, I have formed a small dam of napkins around my chin so I can finish typing without the incessant dripping sounds.

The grower can control the spread of water in sloping gardens with small dams made from soil or sections of two - by - fours.

All three of Carrington Paks, the smallest products we sell by volume, traveled to the Hoover Dam, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume!

Prefolds, however, win this competition because they not only have the elastic in the cover, but also the absorbent cotton material of the prefold itself held tight to the small of the back to help dam the flow.

«I can report that 320 small dams and dugout sites in 64 districts, in the northern part of the country, have been earmarked for development,» he said / He added:» Additionally, 192 will be evaluated in 2018 for development there.»

To facilitate the provision of community - owned and managed small - scale irrigation facilities especially in northern Ghana, the Ministry identified 192 small dams and dugouts in 64 districts for development under the «One - Village - One Dam» initiative beginning 2018.

He said the number is part of the total of 320 small dams and dug - outs planned to be constructed in 64 districts in northern Ghana as part of the government's One - District - One - Dam project.

President Akufo - Addo says the government will commence processes to construct 192 small dams in various selected districts of the country from 2018.

«I can report that 320 small dams and dugout sites in 64 districts, in the northern part of the country, have been earmarked for development.

The president, Nana Akufo - Addo who gave the keynote address at the 33rd Farmers» Day celebration in Kumasi on December 1, 2017 said that in line with the government's target of promoting all - year - round cropping, 320 small dams and dugout in 64 districts in the Northern Region have been earmarked to be developed under the One - Village - One - Dam project.

A total of five hundred and seventy (570) dams are to be constructed in the three northern regions this year as part of the NPP Government's manifesto pledge to facilitate community - owned and managed small - scale irrigation facilities across the country, popularly known as «One Village One Dam.»

With colleagues from NIVA, Norwegian Public Roads Administration, Norwegian University of Life Sciences and University of Copenhagen, Ranneklev and Meland collected plants, frogs, sediments and minnow, a small fish, in a sedimentation dam that protects river Ljanselva at Skullerud, and Sagdammen in river Ljanselva, both in the Oslo area.

Farms and cities siphon most of the river's water before it reaches Mexico, but on March 23, under a binational agreement, U.S. and Mexican officials unleashed an eight - week «pulse flow» from a small dam on the border to help restore the delta.

Because of the costs involved, only the smaller North Aral has been earmarked for rescue (New Scientist print edition, 4 January 2003), and several dams to stem water loss from it have been build since the mid-1990s.

By 1996, through a local network of solar panels and small hydroelectric dams, EWS supplied «green» power to the entire village.

But in the meantime, they advocate for a standard definition of «small» dams that include more than just generation capacity so that regulations and policies can be applied more rigorously.

«Individually, large hydropower dams will always cause greater environmental impacts, but with rapid growth of the small hydropower sector, our rivers might just suffer from many small cuts.»

Pregnant mice engineered to have higher levels of Zika virus had smaller fetuses (top) than normal dams (bottom).

Tens of thousands of smaller hydroelectric dams exist around the world, and all indications suggest that the number could substantially increase in the future.

As a result, many private landowners and corporations can leverage easier environmental permitting to build small hydropower dams for a fraction of the time and cost of large dams.

The researchers say more research is needed to understand the cumulative effects of many small dams on the landscape, especially given the rapid pace of development.

In Brazil, for example, there are cases of small hydropower dams producing the same amount of power, but varying greatly in the sizes of reservoirs behind them.

Small dams in China «often lack sufficient enforcement of environmental regulations» because they are «left to the jurisdiction of the province,» said Guy Ziv, lead scientist for the Natural Capital Project, an organization which develops tools to assess and quantify natural resources, and a researcher for the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University.

These factors have been long - studied for large dams, yet have been largely ignored for small dams — especially considering the potential cumulative effects of many small dams in a single river system.

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Near Glen Canyon Dam, the researchers found food webs dominated by invasive New Zealand mud snails and non-native rainbow trout, with large mismatches in the food web and only a small percentage of available invertebrates eaten by fish.

RoR dams can cause a spike in methylmercury in two ways — they can form small reservoirs, called headponds, which flood soil and create slow - flowing, low - oxygen environments; or they can create higher temperatures in the stream as a result of the reduced flow conditions when portions of the stream are diverted to the turbines.

Their study, showing that more methane than previously believed bubbles out of the water behind small dams, appears in ACS» journal Environmental Science & Technology.

Now, after decades of grim losses, the news from the Aral Sea is good: Since the dam's completion last August, the smaller, northern part of the Aral Sea has swelled by 30 percent, flooding more than 300 square miles of parched, sun - bleached seabed.

In 1997 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decided that the small amount of power the Edwards Dam generated did not justify the environmental costs.

The historical land connections can reveal how much a structural change, whether that is the shifting of continents or even on a much smaller scale, like building a dam or paving a road, can influence ecosystems.

Biologists say that if the dam is not stopped, the gene pool in the subgroups will be so small the bears will no longer be viable and they could disappear within a couple of decades.

Coming from Washington State, which is highly dependent on large hydroelectric dams for its electricity, McMorris Rodgers is a vocal supporter of hydropower and nuclear energy and has sponsored legislation expanding the development of small hydroelectric dams nationwide — a valuable source of renewable energy.

The new study suggests that rather than rivers being confined to single, winding channels before 20th century industrialisation, they were collections of many small channels spreading across broad wetlands before European settlers dammed them in.

Despite a number of high - profile dam removals along America's rivers recently, allowing Glen Canyon Dam to cease operations is no small decisidam removals along America's rivers recently, allowing Glen Canyon Dam to cease operations is no small decisiDam to cease operations is no small decision.

Surveyed from 30 meters above using drones and specialized image analysis software, the site shows the unmistakable outlines of check dams, irrigation canals and cisterns feeding a patchwork of small farm fields.

The fragment of relatively small, primitive retorts and perforated plates found in the earth fill of dam across the Tidi (Tiri) river may belong to the period or they must at least predate the dam itself.

A small dam in M'bé near Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire represents the inspiring story of unsung heroes who helped more than 300 farming households survive a difficult time when they had little hope.

Dam realities: Scientists in the Division of Biology explore how small dams in Kansas streams disrupt native fishes