In some parts of California and Texas, a portion of the water supply is provided to consumers for almost nothing delivered by a network of dams, reservoirs, and aqueducts that were built decades ago. The Hoover Dam, for example, which created Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the US, was built in 1936 during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal.

Asia s Dammed Water Hegemon

We'll change at the reservoir.

And that's Lake Meade behind the dam.

And we started with the stream and built the house along the stream dammed it up to make a lake.

See Dams and Development a New Framework for Decision making, ed.

In 2000, the World Commission on Dams estimated the global total of persons displaced by dams alone to be between 40 and 80 million.

They must get a lot of power from this dam.

Lake, reservoir

Farmers were still not allowed to use the water of Mas'adah Lake, dig wells or collect water from rain or snow.

The water's swell!

The crowd flooded in like water into a dam.

Work on dams and barrages has been halted, and the water monitoring and purification system has broken down.

One innovative technique is the use of underground dams to capture water flowing in shallow aquifers.

At the same time, the navigation scheduling management waters were adjusted from the 180 kilometer waters close to dam to the 541.8 kilometer waters from Yunyang Yangtze River Bridge to Shishou Yangtze River Bridge in the Scheduling Regulation . And the core waters , water close to dam , control waters and scheduling waters were divided.

There used to be no mud at the lake, do you remember?

Affected lakes include Lake Songor in Ghana, Lake Nakuru in Kenya, Lake Chad, Lake Victoria (Africa's largest freshwater lake) and many others.

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

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

Construction of a second hydroelectric dam on the Zambezi River downstream from Cahora Bassa is proposed as an eventual energy source for the Mozal aluminium smelter in Maputo.

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

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

It's a salt lake. We got to cross it.

It's not as cold as I thought.

The Loch Ness Monster is actually Fantomas.

Experiments in water management focus on the development of water harvesting techniques, the promotion of desalination plants and dam construction.

The lake hides the ruins of a town.

As one of the primary beneficiaries of Lake Chad, the shrinking of which ranked as one of Africa's most severe water crises, Nigeria supported initiatives aimed at restoring water to the Lake.

Two planned hydroelectric plants in the Philippines and the Pangue and RALCO hydroelectric dams in Chile were cited in this regard.

On the first day of enforcing the new regulations, the navigation in Three Gorges Gezhouba waters was in good order.

Hundreds of buffaloes moved toward the lake.

Drop by drop, the water can conglomerate into a lake.

According to Zheng Jianjun, the Management Section Chief of Nanhu Park Water Area, the deepest point of the South Lake is more than 10 meters deep. People who do not understand the situation of water are probably confronted with danger.

The construction of the Pangue hydroelectric dam in the Bio Bio region and the RALCO project were said to be threatening the existence of the Mapuche Pehuenche communities.

Hunan Provincial Environmental Protection Department Orders Yiyang Government to Improve Datong Lake's Water Quality

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.

The lake was gleaming in the bright sunshine.

Some of the bluest water in the world is found in Crater Lake.

The water was so warm. I thought there was no danger.

Do you know some old legend about an undertow?

In the spot where Irma fell, the lake is very deep and the bottom is covered with thick vegetation.

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.

Wait. This dream or whatever. The lake and the lilies.

Once in a while, some tragedy occurs... the lake is treacherous, you know.