Dams across the Nile

Most of China s dams serve multiple functions, including generating electric power and meeting manufacturing, mining, irrigation, and municipal supply water needs. By ramping up the size of its dams, China now not only boasts the world s largest number of mega dams, but is also the biggest global producer of hydropower, with an installed generating capacity of 230 gigawatts.

Displacements were also caused by major development projects, such as large dams or mines.

And it isn't just dam. It's dam after dam after dam.

The dam will bring them the electricity.

After slowing its dam building program in response to the serious environmental consequences of completion in 2006 of the Three Gorges Dam the world s largest China is now rushing to build a new generation of giant dams. At a time when dam building has largely petered out in the West and run into growing grassroots opposition in other democracies like Japan and India China will remain the nucleus of the world s mega dam projects.

A Breach in the Eurozone Dike

So what you see here is the Three Gorges Dam, and this is the largest dam by 50 percent ever attempted by man.

Beaver dams, yes. Hoover Dam, no.

We've just built this big dam downriver.

I'm agin dams of any kind.

Oh, that's Hoover Dam.

There's already enough dams locking things up.

Maybe someday you'd like to come over to the dam, and I'll show you. Okay?

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Outbreaks of disease also occurred in districts cut off by heavy snow, which made it difficult for these outbreaks to be reported.

Add on pandemic threat, you're in big trouble.

Indeed, Chinese scientists blamed the massive 2008 earthquake that struck the Tibetan plateau s eastern rim, killing 87,000 people, on the newly constructed Zipingpu Dam, located next to a seismic fault. The weight of the water impounded in the dam s massive reservoir was said to have triggered severe tectonic stresses, or what scientists call reservoir triggered seismicity.

(ii) Selection of sites for dams

(1) Hydropower dam project in Adralala (Benin Togo)

We feel however, that the construction of big dams should be opposed.

The dam is finished, and once they close those gates and the water starts to rise...

Some senators are even against any appropriations at all for these dams.

Habitat fragmentation by large reservoirs is an additional environmental impact of hydropower schemes.

Hydropower developments, and large dams and their resulting reservoirs in particular, can have significant impacts on ecosystems.

Out to the right, down the embankment steps, the other end of the building.

After the enforcement of new regulations, the plan of security check would be released once every day at 9 00 and 21 00, and the plan of passing dam would be released once every day at 14 00 and 20 00, so that the ships could flexibly arrange the plan of passing dam.

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What do you think the likelihood is that there'll be a pandemic?

Sit down. Your generosity is becoming overwhelming as it gets closer to 10 00.

The State Council, seeking to boost the country s already large hydropower capacity by 120 gigawatts, has identified 54 new dams in addition to the ones currently under construction as key construction projects in the revised energy sector plan up to 2015. Most of the new dams are planned for the biodiversity rich southwest, where natural ecosystems and indigenous cultures are increasingly threatened.

Asia s Dammed Water Hegemon

We'll change at the reservoir.

And that's Lake Meade behind the dam.

or TVA, and authorized it to build a series of dams at chosen points along this river.

During its brief tenure, the present Government has made massive infrastructure developments resulting in the construction of 176 dams, 202 major bridges and 60,000 kilometres of motorways.

The Scheduling Regulation also put forward the measures of integrity constraint for the rule breaking ships according to the current characteristics of ship passing dam and waiting for crossing lock, such as canceling the declaration and delaying the time of passing dam for 24 hours.

These three international rivers originate on the Tibetan plateau, whose bounteous water resources have become a magnet for Chinese planners. The Salween, which runs from Tibet through Yunnan Province into Burma and Thailand, will cease to be Asia s last largely free flowing river, with work on the first project the giant, 4,200 megawatt Songta Dam in Tibet to begin shortly.

And there've been bangs in the past, and there will be bangs in the future.

Such practices often accompany large scale development projects, such as dam building and other major energy projects.

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Eruption

Measles outbreak.

We are at war! War declared official!

War declared official!