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    The Three Gorges Dam

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    Name: LE VAN HUNG The three Gorges Dam 1. What stakeholders have been helped by the Three Gorges Dam? What stakeholders have been hurt by it? The Three Gorges Dam provided electricity for the stakeholders‚ it was very important for the developing of china’s economic‚ where the demand for electricity was increase and increase rapidly. It also controlled the water at the safe level. Thus‚ it could reduce the flood. Furthermore‚ Hydroelectric was a safe energy for the environment‚ it

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    The Sardar Sarovar Dam

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    THE SARDAR SAROVAR DAM The Sardar Sarovar Dam is a gravity dam on the Narmada River near Navagam‚ Gujarat in India. It is the largest dam and part of the Narmada Valley Project‚ a large hydraulic engineering project involving the construction of a series of large irrigation and hydroelectric multi-purpose dams on the Narmada River. The project took form in 1979 as part of a development scheme to increase irrigation and produce hydroelectricity. One of the 30 dams planned on river Narmada‚ Sardar

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    Yangtze River Dam

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    Local and migrating organisms affected by the dam: The creation of the Three Gorges Dam has lead to the endangerment and extinction of many plant and animals. The Three Gorges region is considered a biodiversity hotspot. It is home to over 6‚400 plant species‚ 3‚400 insect species‚ 300 fish species‚ and more than 500 terrestrial vertebrate species. The disruption of the river’s natural flow dynamics due to blockage will affect the migratory paths of fish. Due to the increase of ocean vessels in

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    The History of the Tehri Dam

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    Tehri Dam The Tehri Dam is the highest dam in India‚ 2nd highest in Asia and 8th highest in world. It is a multi-purpose rock and earth-fill embankment dam on the Bhagirathi River near Tehri in Uttarakhand‚ India. It is the primary dam of the THDC India Ltd. and the Tehri hydroelectric complex. Phase 1 was completed in 2006‚ the Tehri Dam withholds a reservoir for irrigation‚ municipal water supply and the generation of 1‚000 MW of hydroelectricity. One more project of the installed capacity of

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    Three Gorges Dam

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    The Three Gorges Dam‚ when completed‚ will be the largest dam ever constructed‚ spanning 2.3 kilometers and holding back more then 39 billion cubic meters of water (Three Gorges). In 2007‚ the population hit 1.3 billion. The strain on China’s resources is immense and because of this China has had to invest in many large projects throughout the country. One of its most important needs is energy. China’s power consumption in 2005 was 2.494 trillion kilowatt hours (Cunningham 327). China has built dozens

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    Effects of Dam Building

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    Effects of Dam Building Grade 10 Geography Units 12‚ 13‚ 14 Essay - Effects of Dam Building By:Brenden Kilmartin Many people have already dammed a small stream using sticks and mud by the time they become adults. Humans have used dams since early civilization‚ because four-thousand years ago they became aware that floods and droughts affected their well-being and so they began to build

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    Wolf Creek Dam

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    — Investing in the Human Factor 28th Annual USSD Conference Portland‚ Oregon‚ April 28 - May 2‚ 2008 Hosted by Portland General Electric On the Cover Portland General Electric’s North Fork Dam‚ on the Clackamas River southeast of Portland‚ is a thin‚ variable-radius concrete arch dam with a maximum height of 207 feet and a thickness varying from 32 feet at the base to 8 feet at the crest. The spillway is a 200-foot-long gated ogee-type structure with a 250-foot-long reinforced concrete

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    Dams and Rivers of India

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    Did you mean: multi purpose river valley project   |Scholarly articles for multi purpose river valelly project | |[pic] |Citizen Speak: The Democratic Imagination in American Life - Perrin - Cited by 6 | | |Government by the People - Burns - Cited by 63 | The Blackstone River Theatre |10 Mar 2007 ... Blackstone River Theatre ’s open drum circle

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    Kleinfontein Dam Analysis

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    pH Readings: From the pH results recorded from the two water sources‚ we can clearly see that Kleinfontein Dam has the higher pH levels‚ which indicate poor and unsafe water conditions. From Article two‚ we can see that a High (7.5) or Low (5.5) pH level is very dangerous and harmful to humans who come in contact with the water. The pH Level recordings at 8 and 9 are extreme dangers if they were to come in to contact with humans and also they are way over the borders which is not acceptable at

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    Build Laiban Dam

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    Build Laiban Dam Abulencia‚ Christine Jeanette E.; Bunag‚ Princess Arjhen S.; De Jesus‚ Jalyn Arianne B.; Ico‚ Anna Rica A.; Maute‚ Sarah A.; Nuque‚ Jacqueline Bubbles N. cristine.abulencia@yahoo.com‚ cesz_arjhen02@yahoo.com‚ jharibdj@ymail.com‚ annaricaico5@yahoo.com‚ sarah_maute@yahoo.com‚ bubbles_tigerlily@yahoo.com Abstract: Water is a primary need of man. And though it has been so important to every living thing ever since‚ not everyone has an access to safe drinking water until now

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