Sentences with phrase «small dams in»

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

These might include small dams in the headlands or working with farmers to build embankments around fields to store water during the winter months when cattle are housed indoors.»

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.

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.

Building small dams in small places doesn't help you with that.»

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

Iranian hackers infiltrated the computer system at a small dam in a quiet village 20 miles from New York City in 2013, according to a report on Monday.

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.

The block is externally fenced and there is a small dam in the middle of the cottages.

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.

They created small model reservoirs, proving that hydroelectric dams released greenhouse gases and caused mercury to increase in fish.

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.

A small hole in a huge dam will eventually bring it all down.

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.

IPEP projects were selected through standardised guidelines in the categories provided below: • One Village, One Dam; • Small Business Development; • Agricultural inputs, including equipment; • «Water For All» Projects; and • Sanitation Projects.

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.

«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.

The Justice Department is preparing to announce charges in a cyberattack on Bowman Avenue Dam, a small flood - control structure in Rye Brook about 20 miles outside NYC, a case U.S. officials have linked to Iran, a person familiar with the matter said.

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.

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.

«We have identified some important gaps in policy and science that should be filled to better manage small hydropower dams and to have science that really informs policy.»

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

Dams, big or small, have the potential to change a river's water flow, temperature, sediment, and ultimately the patterns in plant and animal diversity.

These structures are small enough to avoid the many regulations large dams face, and are built more quickly and in much higher densities.

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.

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

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 theIn 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 thein the sizes of reservoirs behind them.

In the Jan. 10 SN: City creatures large and small, dam demolition, methane on Mars, squirrel acrobatics, escaping Alcatraz, the art of DNA folding and more.

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.

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

In surveying Kansas» streams and rivers, the researchers discovered numerous small dams that do not allow enough habitat for the fish to complete their reproductive cycles.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Today, there is also a growing interest in small hydro facilities such as small dams that generate less than 10 megawatts of power and pumped storage hydroelectric plants.

The latest version — called the second - generation Sensor Fish — can be used in different kinds of hydro facilities, including unconventional, smaller hydropower plants and conventional dams with either Kaplan or Francis dam turbines.

I actually worked in Harvey (Western Australia) for a couple of years and was surprised to find so many places I hadn't seen or been to before in such a small town including this picturesque scene of pine trees lining a dam.

On a side note, that air dam was much smaller on the last prototype but has been enlarged this time around, signaling the thought that we may see this thing make it's debut at the L.A. Auto show later this month or at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit next January.

The plastic - resin front fenders extend downward below the centerline of the wheel and incorporate a small air dam in front of the wheel.

Just below it is a hexagonal secondary air dam, in place of the old car's smaller trough - shaped element.