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

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.

(ii) Selection of sites for dams

Dams across the Nile

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.

Asia s Dammed Water Hegemon

We'll change at the reservoir.

The dam will bring them the electricity.

A Breach in the Eurozone Dike

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.

Beaver dams, yes. Hoover Dam, no.

We've just built this big dam downriver.

I'm agin dams of any kind.

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.

The bank secured the city from a flood.

They must get a lot of power from this dam.

And do you know what that will mean?

Oh, that's Hoover Dam.

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

It's too risky now. We're already abandoning the dam.

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.

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?

In western Pakistan nearly three weeks of heavy rains resulted in severe flooding, which in turn led to the collapse of a major dam in Sind province.

The crowd flooded in like water into a dam.

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

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

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.

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.

And they asked me to join a crowd of people that were running up and down this embankment.

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.

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

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.

Imagine the staggering cost of protecting this vital infrastructure with levees.

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.

And that's Lake Meade behind the dam.

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.

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

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

Chen Dongyuan, the deputy director of Three Gorges Navigation Authority, said that the Scheduling Regulation played an active role in promoting the management of crossing lock in an honest way, relieving the pressure of ships waiting for crossing the lock in the dam region, and improving the navigation capacity.

Well, basically, we dam it, we pollute it, we pour in pesticides, weedicides, fungicides.

And we get to Hama. We get all the way from the dam to Hama and there's no bridge.