24 October 2011 Dam the Politics... Save the Salmon There are some things in this world that mean more to us than we can explain. We as human beings have an existential connection to all of mother earth’s creatures. We are approaching a dark time in the Klamath River‚ soon there will be no natural born salmon spawning up what was once one of the rivers that spawned the most salmon in the Pacific Northwest. The salmon that at one time flourished in the Klamath‚ are not able to reach their natural
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Hoover Dam INTRODUCTION Without the Hoover Dam‚ many more people would have been jobless during the hard times of the Depression which would have hindered many people needs for inexpensive power and water. While the construction of the Hoover Dam was ongoing‚ many workers looked to it as a representation of every American’s contribution to a better life. The Hoover Dam caused the once deserted towns in the West to flourish into booming metropolises. The construction of the Hoover Dam helped to
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Tehri Dam| | Location of Tehri Dam| Country|India| Location|Uttarakhand[->0]| Coordinates|30°22′40″N 78°28′50″ECoordinates[->1]: 30°22′40″N 78°28′50″E| Status|Operational| Construction began|1978| Opening date|2006| Construction cost|US$1 billion| Owner(s)|Tehri Hydro Development Corporation| Dam and spillways| Type of dam[->2]|Embankment[->3]‚ earth and rock-fill| Height|260.5 m (855 ft)| Length|575 m (1‚886 ft)| Crest width|20 m (66 ft)| Base width|1‚128 m (3‚701 ft)| Impounds|Bhagirathi
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The banqiao dam Causing more than any other dam failure in history‚ and was rebuilt The DAM FALIURES killed an estimated 171‚000 people; 11 million people lost their homes. It also caused the sudden loss of 18 GW of power ‚ the TOTAL of roughly 9 very large modern coal-fired power stations or about 20 nuclear reactors‚ equaling about 1/3 the peak demand on the UK National Grid. According to the Hydrology Department of Henan Province approximately 26‚000 people die from FLOODING and
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A grand scheme that the Brazilian Government used was to build a dam in 1984. It was the fourth largest dam in the world and it cost 5 billion dollars. The Brazilian government plans to build more dams in the amazon to harness the power of various rivers with money borrowed from other countries. The idea of dams such as these is to generate cheap electricity for Brazilian industrustys. The water held back by the dams has flooded a huge area of forest. The forest wasn’t cleared‚ (though it should
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– Project Management for IT 01 May 2013 Due Wednesday The Hoover Dam – Major Deliverable and Biggest Challenges When the Hoover Dam was built‚ the concept of Project Management was most likely not very close to what it is today. Back then‚ the things that got built‚ buildings‚ dams and so on‚ all had the basic simple goal of just being completed. I am sure that the major deliverable of the project was to complete the dam and use it to produce electricity (hydro-electric) for a large area of
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surrounding catchment areas was about 3‚700 cusecs. The dam also received about 570 cusecs from the Krishna Drinking Water Supply channel. Tiruvallur District Collector Pankaj Kumar Bansal and Government Chief Whip P.M. Narasimhan released the shutters of the link canal to allow 500 cusecs into the Red Hills reservoir. The shutters of Baby canal were opened to allow 90 cusecs into the Cholavaram reservoir. In the evening‚ all the rainwater received in the dam was released into the Kosasthalaiyar‚ officials
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Polavaram Project is a multi-purpose irrigation project which has been accorded national project status by the central government.[1] This dam across the Godavari River is under construction. It is located in West Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh state of India. PURPOSE National River-Linking Project‚ which works under the aegis of the Indian Ministry of Water Resources‚ was designed to overcome the deficit in water in the country. As a part of this plan‚ surplus water from the Himalayanrivers
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Teaching Geography Workshop 4: North Africa/Southwest Asia – Part 2: Egypt JIM BINKO: Our investigation of North Africa/Southwest Asia continues in Egypt. Here as throughout that region‚ the presence or absence of water has had a profound influence on human settlement. We will see the great impact that access to resources has on the characteristics‚ distribution and migration of human population on Earth’s surface. You will be able to understand how changes in the spatial distribution of
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construction of (a) two dams at Bhakra and Nangal‚ (b) the Bhakra canal system commanding a gross area of about 27.4 lakh hectares‚ (c) the Nangal hydel channel‚ (d) four power houses at Ganguwal‚ Kotla‚ left bank and right bank power houses with total installed capacity of 1‚204 mw‚ and (e) construction of 3‚680 km long transmission lines to distribute electricity to neighbouring areas. The Bhakra-Nangal project is the largest multi-purpose project of the country. Bhakra Dam-This dam‚ completed in 1963
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