Dams, including hydroelectric dams, disrupt all of these with devastating results.
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The $252 billion project was to build two dams with five auxiliary dams used to hold water beyond what is held by the main dams.
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The group "is recommending that dams, especially large dams, be built by dam professionals, but it is too rarely the case for tailing dams," Grenier said.
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"Dams on dams on dams," said Amy Singler, the associate director of the River Restoration Program at American Rivers, as we followed a trail down toward the brook.
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The project consists of major dams on three tributaries of the giant Mekong River as well as several smaller auxiliary dams, or saddle dams, including the one that failed.
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And even if environmentalists didn't oppose hydroelectric dams, there are few sites for building dams.
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To chants of "No Dams", she said Albania should ensure its energy grid worked properly before building dams.
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Known as "Saddle Dam D", it was part of a network of two main dams and five subsidiary dams.
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Unlike the dams used to build reservoirs or hydroelectric projects, tailings dams are not usually made from reinforced concrete or stone.
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Today, there are roughly 6900,2628 large dams around the world, with over 28503,22019 more hydropower dams currently planned or under construction.
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The subsidiary dam, known as "Saddle Dam D," was part of a network of two main dams and five subsidiary dams.
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The 2016 National Inventory of Dams shows there are nearly 300 "high-hazard potential dams" in California without an emergency action plan.
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The construction of hydropower dams upstream from the delta, and dams in China's southern province of Yunnan, are adding to the woes.
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All upstream dams in operation must still be deactivated in 2021, however, meaning no new tailings can be added to the dams.
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The project — which includes three major dams in addition to at least three smaller auxiliary dams, or saddle dams, like the one that failed — is designed to generate electricity from the water of three rivers, which all ultimately flow into the Mekong.
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Separately from the rules on tailings dams management, the ministry issued a draft of national standards covering technical rules of tailings dams in September.
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In the short term, melting glaciers leave behind rock debris that creates dams, and if these debris dams burst, the resulting floods could destroy villages.
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Three dams are National Historic Landmarks, and will remain in place, along with two other historic dams, after others have been partially or totally removed.
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Some energy planners think the answer to the shortcomings of run-of-river dams is to go back to the big-reservoir dams of the past.
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Around 103 mainstream dams and more than a hundred tributary dams are planned by 2040 as regional governments tap their hydropower capacity amid soaring power demand.
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But around the world, big dams are on the rise: a recent study published in Science reported that "the world's most biodiverse river basins — the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong — are experiencing an unprecedented boom in construction of hydropower dams," with 450 dams planned or already under construction.
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Brazil gets around three quarters of its power from hydro-electric dams, though environmental concerns and opposition from Amazon tribes have often delayed the completion of dams.
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Such "upstream" dams, which use mining waste and tailings as banks for the dam, are cheaper than dams built with earth and rocks, but considered less safe.
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Those five dams are Shasta and Folsom Dams in California, Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona, Grand Coulee Dam in Washington and Hoover Dam, which straddles Nevada and Arizona.
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That's one reason many of those same environmentalists want existing hydroelectric dams, such as the dams constructed by the U.S. government decades ago on the Columbia River, removed.
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Some said the construction of dams could contribute to climate change because organic matter submerged by dams and reservoirs may release significant amounts of methane when they decompose.
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Environment Minister Ricardo Salles said in a TV interview on Monday that Brazil should create new regulation for mining dams, replacing wet tailings dams with dry mining methods.
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Two dams began to release some of their waters and other dams in the area may take similar measures, as waters were nearing limits, public broadcaster NHK reported.
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But the episode was a reminder of the pressures on the major dams among the 1,400 dams of various sizes in the state, where water levels are actively managed to control floods, make electricity, provide water for drinking, irrigation and recreation, and keep the dams and the people below them safe.
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Vale has since announced it is shutting down its 10 remaining upstream dams and suspending production at the mining compounds where they stand until the dams have been decommissioned.
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He and we may not think a lot about dams in that context, but we should since the greatest infrastructure building period in modern U.S. history was all about dams.
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Vale subsequently halted all facilities using similar upstream tailings dams until those dams could be decomissioned, a move it estimated would take up to 10 percent of its output offline.
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Eduardo Leão, a director at ANM, said the agency aims to issue an ordinance on Friday requiring that such dams be taken down or converted into other types of dams.
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Orca advocates are calling for the dams to be breached as dams alter the habitat, change historic river flow and raise water temperatures, according to Northwest Power and Conservation Council.
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The American Society of Civil Engineers gives the country's dams an average grade of "D" and estimates that at least $21 billion is needed to fix aging, high-hazard dams.
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However, the public or political discourse, rarely mentions that the greatest risks are from dams operated by state agencies, public utilities or private companies, which, according to our analysis of data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams database, make up over 97% of dams in the United States.
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Brazil's government banned new upstream mining dams, ordering the decommissioning of all such dams by 2021, targeting the type of structure that fatally burst at a Vale-run dam last month.
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With thousands of aging dams in the U.S. now considered obsolete, policymakers should consider removing unnecessary and unsafe dams, according to a new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP).
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California Department of Water Resources engineer Eric Holland, in the Division of Safety of Dams, said restrictions on capacity affected 64 reservoirs out of the 1,250 dams overseen by the agency.
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China, Laos and Cambodia have begun massive hydroelectric development programs, with more than a dozen dams planned, under construction or completed on the main river and many more dams on tributaries.
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Mr. Andrus had been a longtime critic of the dams' effect on migrating salmon, but he also believed a balance could be achieved that preserved the dams, industry and the fish.
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If all tailings dams are banned, Vale's costs move higher as it will have to switch to more expensive dry processing of iron ore, as well as invest in rehabilitating existing dams.
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Either way, he said, "there are a lot of dams" and there will continue to be a lot of dams in the decades ahead until their power agreements or licenses run out.
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The American Society of Civil Engineers' 2013 Report Card for America's Infrastructure gave a "D" grade to the nation's dams, noting that there are about 4,000 deficient dams in need of repairs.
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In the weeks after the accident, Brazil's government banned new upstream mining dams - the type of dam involved in the Vale disaster - and ordered the decommissioning of all such dams by 2021.
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In a statement, the U.N. expert on disposal of hazardous substances Baskut Tuncat urged the government to prioritize safety evaluations of dams and not authorize any new tailing dams until safety is ensured.
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Many do forced labour, such as building roads or dams.
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Large dams tend to be controversial, wherever they are built.
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Hydroelectric dams have also reduced the river's flow of freshwater.
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Another 374 dams are planned with 301 in Laos alone.
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Tailings dams contain tonnes of waste material from mining operations.
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Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais previously operated all four dams.
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Dozens more dams for tributaries are on the drawing board.
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The dams are certainly stripping the Mekong of essential sediment.
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Dams, led the team championship by more than 40 points.
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There are also commercial rationales for not building the dams.
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"The impact of the dams will be irreversible," he said.
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"Because it is so destructive building these dams," she said.
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The surge of snowmelt was greatly reduced by dams upstream.
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The other half comes from renewable energies, including hydroelectric dams.
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Even after Chile's giant 2010 quake, downstream dams remained standing.
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Crumbling roads, bridges and dams are already extracting significant costs.
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Singapore also invested heavily in underground drainage systems and dams.
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A drought was depleting the nation's reservoirs, paralyzing its dams.
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The government said some dams were dangerously close to bursting.
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MYANMAR VIETNAM Red dams were built or financed by China.
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Data from the CGIAR Mekong Dams Observatory, WorldPop and OpenStreetMap.
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"Dams aren't something that can be easily undone," she added.
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Water levels at dams supplying the city continue to sink.
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The state's aging dams are in dire need of repair.
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Both dams are associated with the Brazilian mining giant Vale.
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Brazil has nearly 4,000 dams that are classified as having "high damage potential" or being at high risk, with 205 of those dams containing mineral waste, the country's Regional Development Minister Gustavo Canuto said.
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Fish passes in dams have been repeatedly found not to live up to promises made for them, particularly when fish must pass through multiple sets, as they would if Laos builds all its planned dams.
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One would outlaw all tailings dams for mining and industrial waste.
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More stress on levees, dams, rivers, creeks and streams is expected.
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Additional stress on levees, dams, rivers, creeks and streams is expected.
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And the state's roads, bridges, and dams aren't ready for it.
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"Today the dams are impeccable," Mr Schvartsman had said last year.
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Dams and buildings are more likely to collapse after heavy rainfall.
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In January, CWC published guidelines for preparing operating manuals for dams.
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These mega-dams will have an environmental impact of unimaginable scope.
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Dams can prevent flooding by regulating the flow of water downstream.
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Dams restrict the movement of fish; they force movement on people.
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Laos has nine dams planned or under way; Cambodia has two.
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The process involves raising water levels using dams and irrigation channels.
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It's not just a matter of whether dental dams are profitable.
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The waters behind the dams in the vast reservoirs were diminishing.
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But dams like this make it hard for the pallid sturgeon.
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Together, those dams generate an average of 82 megawatts of power.
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Never especially watertight on defense, the dams have burst in Eugene.
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Yes, as a matter of fact, we do have dental dams.
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In 2014, the dams stood full after years of good rain.
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The proposed mine would store toxic mine wastes behind earthen dams.
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The dams, pipelines and roads that these loans built spurred progress.
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The territory is also threatened by proposed dams and hydroelectric plants.
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Or ignore the deterioration of important infrastructure like dams and levees.
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It was the dams releasing reservoir water that put them underwater.
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Hydroelectric dams, when they are built, flood large areas of vegetation.
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In the United States, over 1,600 obsolete dams have been removed.
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Darwall says that where old dams are decommissioned, nature often reappears.
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Some dams already provide a basis for the Hoover Dam proposal.
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Across the state, dams are under siege and reservoirs are overflowing.
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Iceland's electric utility built five highland dams that capture glacial meltwater.
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"With the construction of dams in the main branch of the Çoruh basin, flood disasters are no longer experienced due to the storage characteristics of the dams," said State Hydraulic Works (DSİ) general manager, Murat Acu.
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"We will continue with our engagement activity of putting pressure on Vale as an operator of upstream tailings dams and dams in general to be much more rigorous in their risk assessment and prevention," she said.
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Plans to improve Afghanistan's water storage capacity have been on the drawing board for decades but now the government is actively seeking aid from international donors to build two dams and increase the height of existing dams.
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HOLLYWOOD, Fla (Reuters) - Freeport-McMoRan Inc Chief Executive Richard Adkerson said on Monday his company has been investing heavily to mitigate any danger from tailings dams and is "comfortable" with engineering designs in place at existing dams.
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These include accelerating plans to dismantle dams similar to the one at Brumadinho, suspending production at another big mine in Brazil (in response to a court order) and evacuating residents from three areas near other tailings dams.
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Cost: $685 million After a single heavy rain in 2015 breached more than 50 dams and caused widespread flooding, the Army Corps of Engineers assessed over 600 dams in South Carolina as either "high" or "significant" hazards.
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But the lack of enough dams is again making the problem worse.
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NASA explains that new dams were being built upstream as of 2010.
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"Things can fail whether it's levees or dams or bridges," he said.
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Officials admit that water discharged through the dams caused flooding in Shouguang.
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Power grids, air traffic, dams, and communications towers were all being affected.
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China has completed 11 dams and eight more are in the pipeline.
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In China under Mao Zedong, an estimated 22,000 large dams were constructed.
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Both dams were previously managed by Brazil's Companhia Energética de Sao Paulo.
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Kinshasa is powered by two large dams, built in the Mobutu era.
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Smaller dams and power plants would be cheaper and quicker to build.
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Venezuela, crucially, doesn't have a good backup plan if its dams fail.
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Dams have been virtually obliterated, levees have failed and entire communities marooned.
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But Bryan does note that dams supply bounties of carbon-free energy.
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Some 80 years ago, the dams cut them off from the region.
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Dental dams may not be pretty (correction: they are definitely not pretty).
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By the numbers: 2.8 million: The estimated number of dams constructed worldwide.
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It comes from hydroelectric dams, via the province's primary utility, BC Hydro.
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Dams aren't supposed to be full before the end of the monsoons.
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Dams that supply nearly 4 million people are at under 20% capacity.
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Chinese projects include roads, bridges, irrigation systems, electrical transmission infrastructure and dams.
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Freight is moving too slowly, while dams and levees are deteriorating rapidly.
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On top of this, dams hold back billions of tonnes of silt.
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For example, non-powered dams were identified as one pathway to growth.
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The carp got loose accidentally in the 1960s, released from farm dams.
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Madhya Pradesh stores its share in five dams, including the Bari Ghat.
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Ice dams can be an under-the radar risk from winter storms.
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"Chinese dams can now regulate the Mekong's flow," warned the Lowy note.
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Experts who oppose banning upstream admit the dams require more careful operation.
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Another 54 dams are under construction, with many more in the pipeline.
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She wants to buy thousands of dollars of condoms and dental dams.
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The beaver dams create pools of water in the normally icy landscape.
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"Dental dams were a thing when I was younger," recalls one friend.
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But dams have created problems, including environmental disasters, flooding and water shortages.
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Seven dams have been built on the Mekong's upper reaches since 2000.
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Calls pour in; dams threaten to burst; legislators are deluged, inundated, swamped.
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Thousands of dams across New York, many abandoned, are blocking fish migrations.
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A series of dams on the Columbia River provide abundant hydroelectric power.
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Mr. Leslie writes on dams, water scarcity, soil and other environmental topics.
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Saddam decided to build dams on both the Tigris and the Euphrates.
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Now most scientists come down on the side of removing the dams.
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The coalition also helped the forces establish control of two nearby dams.
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But as these dams deteriorate with time, they need maintenance and upgrades.
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Dams reduce the amount of sediment flowing downstream, which lowers soil fertility.
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And of the 4,862 large dams, only 349 were functioning, it said.
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Even nonhydropower dams have rules that are based on more static conditions.
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But prior research shows that people rarely, if ever, use dental dams.
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Some payments were already made out despite the dams not being built.
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Of about 85,000 dams in the country, according to the National Performance of Dams database at Stanford University, nearly 13,000 -- including Oroville -- are identified as high hazard, meaning that a failure would likely result in loss of life.
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Bolsonaro's environment minister, Ricardo Salles, called for new regulations for mining dams, while Mines and Energy Minister Bento Albuquerque said the country's laws should be changed to fix blame for any accidents on those certifying dams as safe.
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Even minimal attention to the repair and restoration of existing dams, canals, pipes and power lines will lessen the number of dams needed, because large amounts of generated power, as well as irrigation water, are lost to leakage.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil has nearly 4,000 dams that are classified as having "high damage potential" or being at high risk, with 205 of those dams containing mineral waste, the country's Regional Development Minister Gustavo Canuto said on Tuesday.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Mekong River Commission welcomed on Wednesday a decision by the Laos government to suspend approval of new dams while reviewing all dams currently under construction following the collapse of part of a hydropower project last month.
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In a 400-page report, the Senate panel looking into the January disaster proposed a ban on new tailings dams, sought the phase-out of all existing tailings dams within 10 years and recommended harsher legislation for environmental crimes.
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It is a common cause for the collapse of dams holding mining waste, known as tailings, because the walls of these dams are mostly built with dried tailings which consist of a mixture of sand and clay-like mud.
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Blasting and digging an open pit of this size also creates lakes of toxic waste water, tainted with sulfuric acid, and they would be held back by earthen dams -- known as tailings dams -- in a wetland prone to earthquakes.
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For decades, experts have tried to ameliorate the loss of the Columbia's wild fish by installing ladders that allow the fish to swim around the dams, and by placing them in barges and trucks for transport around the dams.
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HOLLYWOOD, Fla, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Freeport-McMoRan Inc Chief Executive Richard Adkerson said on Monday his company has been investing heavily to mitigate any danger from tailings dams and is "comfortable" with engineering designs in place at existing dams.
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It could carry people who inspect or repair buildings and structures like dams.
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Scientists who study the lake also point to Iran's inefficient system of dams.
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But we often forget the crucial role dams play in our infrastructure grid.
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Unfortunately, spillway failures are a particular hazard facing a large number of dams.
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Let's start with our dams and make millions of lives and livelihoods safer.
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In Myanmar, for instance, there were more reservoirs and dams than previously known.
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Hydropower dams will continue to play a role in our nation's energy portfolio.
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For instance, only 3 percent of the nation's 80,000 dams now produce electricity.
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One-third of the nation's hydropower dams will require license renewals by 2030.
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Upgrading existing dams is just one of the approaches that holds big promise.
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Hurricane Maria destroyed Puerto Rico's power and water infrastructure, including dams and reservoirs.
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How many are offered protection in the form of condoms or dental dams?
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Most rivers, dams, wells, and even some boreholes have dried up, locals say.
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Dams of the West is sort of the truest answer I can give.
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These communities disappeared after hydroelectric dams were built in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.
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Another proposed measure boosts prospects for the privatization of some of those dams.
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Dams and the water reservoirs they hold back are essentially like bathroom sinks.
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The Chinese are involved in constructing buildings, dams, and bridges within the continent.
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Dry stacking allows companies to dispose of mining waste without relying on dams.
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Cáceres spent two decades fighting against dams and mines that threatened indigenous communities.
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Currently the basin has five major dams, with several more planned, he noted.
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We also started to realize how destructive dams could be to the environment.
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Her cheeks red from the heat, Toprak said they did not need dams.
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A Myanmar commission is reviewing the project, and other proposed hydro-power dams.
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Opinion Could the end be near for one of the West's biggest dams?
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Dental dams actually began as surgical tools, and were repurposed for safe sex.
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The cabinet met to discuss the fate of the remaining high-risk dams.
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Following Harvey, federal officials began controlled releases of water from dams and reservoirs.
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Existing dams and mines that do not comply could be forced to close.
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We will be able to remove environmentally damaging dams and transport water everywhere.
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Dams in Southeast Asia have come under greater scrutiny after several recent disasters.
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The Ethiopian government has recently completed the third of five proposed dams upriver.
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Downtown Kansas City and Omaha have not flooded since the dams went in.
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Stole all the water for their companies, cronies, pistachio farms and stupid dams!!!
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Dams also threaten to intensify flooding downstream during intense downpours when reservoirs overflow.
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Then they could look into designs and textures and start marketing the dams.
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A surge of Chinese-built infrastructure projects, including hydroelectric dams and refineries, followed.
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How the dams and reservoirs work Houston has long been prone to flooding.
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Comprised of 13 sections it includes dikes, a storm-surge barrier and dams.
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Two Roman dams in tributary streams still hold back the two Roman reservoirs.
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Record rains flooded rivers, pushed dams to their limits and caused several landslides.
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"We're not saying that all 2,000 dams should be removed," Ms. Turturro said.
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The report did not say where the dams and overpasses would be built.
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Plus many of the best spots for dams and reservoirs are already taken.
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All things that are preventable with condoms, dental dams, testing, medications and communication.
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But most dams stop settling within a few months after they are built.
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Vale has faced growing pressure to prove that its remaining dams are safe.
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Many of the Brazilian investment projects were hydro-electric dams built by Odebrecht.
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Other attacks have targeted universities, power facilities and dams in the United States.
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But over the years, dams have transformed the habitat the cranes once occupied.
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But dams and oil and gas pipelines are drying and fragmenting their habitats.
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Now Brazil is casting an anxious eye on dozens of dams like it.
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There are 87 mining dams in Brazil built like the one that failed.
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The Brazilian government said it was ordering inspections at dams around the country.
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At the time the dams were built, Pannell said, they had been surrounded by farmland, but an explosion of development in the Houston area in the last two decades had brought homes right up to the edge of the dams.
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BRASILIA, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Brazil has nearly 4,000 dams that are classified as having "high damage potential" or being at high risk, with 205 of those dams containing mineral waste, the country's Regional Development Minister Gustavo Canuto said on Tuesday.
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TAILINGS DAMS: A global inquiry into how mining companies store billions of tonnes of waste in huge dams, launched after a collapse in Brazil killed hundreds of people, shows about a tenth of the structures have had stability issues, investors said.
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The Chinese dams were blamed for exacerbating a Southeast Asian drought in 2016, but countries in the region are pressing ahead with plans for Chinese companies to build a slew of other Mekong dams to meet growing demand for energy.
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River dams are also a problem: on the Missouri, which empties into the Mississippi, just six dams retain roughly a hundred million tons of sediment—a quarter of the entire sediment load that the Mississippi once carried to the Gulf.
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It should abandon all efforts to build new facilities on undammed river reaches and instead take advantage of additional generating capacity available on existing dams that could be tapped by reoperation, updated equipment, new technologies, and by powering non-powered dams.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's government on Monday banned new upstream mining dams and ordered the decommissioning of all such dams by 2021, targeting the type of structure that burst last month in the town of Brumadinho, killing hundreds of people.
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The state's greenery, rivers, and dams are used to dry summer and wet winters.
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The areas around those dams have already been evacuated as a preventative safety measure.
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And it is building new dams that will further squeeze water availability in Iraq.
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Both the Samarco and the Brumadinho disasters involve the failure of upstream tailings dams.
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As sea level rises, this will require a system of dams, dikes and breakwaters.
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But those dams can break due to any number of environmental triggers, including rainfall.
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Power grids, dams, and elections are all too open to attack, the men say.
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Iluka now wants a few extra days to examine the tailings dams more closely.
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An independent review of dams and dam safety is needed at a national scale.
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While this one weathered the storm, other dams in the state weren't so lucky.
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Over 100 dams have been completed on the Mekong, and 90 on its tributaries.
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It has terraced hills to create more cropland, built dams and dug irrigation canals.
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A vast network of dams, canals and pumps shifts water from north to south.
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High-hazard dams are anticipated to cause loss of human life if they fail.
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Over the years similar dams have given way at other mines around the world.
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This system helps native fish pass over dams in seconds rather than day pic.twitter.
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Bolivia has a $10bn Chinese credit line to spend on motorways and hydroelectric dams.
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More than 3,1.23: Hydropower dams currently planned or under construction worldwide, particularly in Asia.
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It also has plans for 65 dams, 16 of which are already under construction.
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Some payments were already made out despite the dams not being built, it said.
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With 239,20.06 dams, Massachusetts is one of the most dammed corners in the country.
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Uganda has been pressing ahead with several major projects, including new dams and roads.
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Those lower dams will also make things yet harder for the nutrient-deprived fish.
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Dams Formula E team and serves as an ambassador for the Renault car company.
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There is less water to store, and few remaining good sites for new dams.
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He dreams of a city buzzing with electric cars, drawing power from Quebec's dams.
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Armed guards are being posted at dams to prevent desperate farmers from stealing water.
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I can't stop watching videos of water levels rising in dams, pans and rivers.
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As levees, dams, and bridges broke across Nebraska, Norfolk's levee held without any breaches.
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Water in the four other dams – Harpura, Charpuva, Madiya and Sudan – has run out.
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But environmentalists say the overloading of the river with dams could destroy that ecosystem.
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Here, the predators build dams out of humans they've snatched from a corporate retreat.
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Environmentalists say the hydroelectric dams will block the last unobstructed tributary in the Amazon.
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Of these dams, nine are located in Laos and two are already under construction.
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A single large project could modernize the state's system of dams and water control.
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In those days, the government built projects across the country: universities, highways, bridges, dams.
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More recently, the Islamic State prioritized seizing dams as it expanded its territorial control.
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Birds and beavers, as well as the animals that live in dams, also returned.
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After dams were built on the river starting in 1912, the salmon were blocked.
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But the 19803s were also when the benefits of dams began to be questioned.
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It has essentially no say over dams built on key tributaries like the Sekong.
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But the cost — wells, dams, aqueducts and pipes for billions of people — was impractical.
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Nam Ou River Mekong River Hanoi Red dams were built or financed by China.
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Dams, however, inflict the deadliest toll on giant fish, many of which are migratory.
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Examples of critical infrastructure include power grids, traffic signals, dams, or nuclear power plants.
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"They don't even talk about dams anymore," Trump said at a meeting with CEOs.
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But the dams raise water temperatures and block travel migration routes, increasing fish mortality.
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The ruling cited the agencies' refusal to consider removing the lower Snake River dams.
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Sudan and Egypt are the biggest users of the river for irrigation and dams.
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Roads, railroads and dams are being proposed and constructed to unsustainably exploit pristine forests.
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Vietnam, for one, has already urged Laos to rethink its plans for more dams.
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As of 2015, there were nearly 2,000 high-hazard dams in need of repair.
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There are about 90,000 dams across the nation, many of which are privately owned.
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It has more mines and tailings dams than any other state in the country.
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"This Laboratory was created in parallel with the development of water infrastructure in Switzerland – mainly (the) construction of dams, but also of course hydropower," Anton Schleiss, head of the LCH and president of the International Commission on Large Dams, told CNBC's Sustainable Energy.
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"The dams are full of water, the rainy season has filled the dams, but the lack of maintenance means that we still have power outages," the source said, asking not to be named because he was not authorized to speak about the issue.
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"I have not seen a single case in which people have been compensated fairly for the disruptions to their lives caused by dams," said Ian Baird, a Southeast Asia expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the social effects of dams.
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But dams block migration, preventing some fish from reaching areas where they feed and spawn.
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The city's two other dams, Harava and Seke, are just 7 percent full, he said.
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Concrete is the spine of skyscrapers, the span of bridges, and the bulk of dams.
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However, environmentalists say it is unwise to concentrate a series of dams along the river.
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Brown said it isn't just dams or spillways that can present risks but bridges, too.
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Retaining the water in the reservoirs could have caused the dams to collapse, they say.
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Iranian government says a seasonal drought has dried out rivers, reducing hydropower production from dams.
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Altering that environment, as beavers do when they build dams, for example, is niche construction.
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Currently, Votorantim Energia has about 2.5 gigawatts in generation capacity from dams and other plants.
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Lesoska says she will continue to fight against other hydropower dams planned for the region.
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This problem isn't unique to Venezuela: any place that relies on dams faces this risk.
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The pact required Canada to construct three dams on the 22024,22028km (21944,214-mile) long river.
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Since then digital centralised controls over the release of water from dams have been introduced.
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The water shortage has also parched the country's hydroelectric dams, contributing to widespread power cuts.
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Though dental dams could be used by anyone, queer women were the product's primary audience.
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"Like where the heck do you buy dental dams?" asked one 15-year-old respondent.
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Dams and reservoirs are the top contributors to major connectivity loss of sections of rivers.
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Thanks to favorable weather, and the use of 83 hydroelectric dams to store green energy.
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The government plans to build more than 63 hydroelectric dams in the area by 2022.
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Decades, even centuries, after we've lost use for them, the dams will still be there.
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"Not all dams are created equal," said Mike Connor, deputy secretary of the Interior Department.
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State television said several villages near rivers and dams in different provinces had been evacuated.
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The bottom line: The water is drying up, and fixes like dams are temporary measures.
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Like beavers that build dams, we build high-rises to shelter ourselves from the elements.
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Water officials are worried that heavy rains could damage other dams in Northern California, too.
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Ninety-seven percent of existing dams in the country are not equipped to generate power.
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It is also extremely expensive to build out new water supplies, dams and desalination plants.
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Building dams on an active fault with recent earthquake activity is practically unprecedented, he claimed.
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The average age of dams across the country is 50 years old, the AP reported.
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The force majeure came after a court ordered it to stop using eight tailings dams.
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The push to build dams throughout the Mekong River Delta has been fraught with controversy.
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In the last two decades, for example, the U.S. has removed more than 1,500 dams.
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Everything changed with the removal of the Veazie and Great Works dams, Dr. Zydlewski said.
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The construction and operations of hydroelectric dams have taken a huge toll on America's rivers.
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Five years later a decree was passed banning upstream dams in all but exceptional circumstances.
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The shortage is the result of a three-year drought that emptied the city's dams.
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Dams take advantage of water descending for some distance and decreases in gravitational potential energy.
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The aim is to facilitate construction projects like dams, bridges, and roads in the Amazon.
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Major river systems originating in the Himalayas, where many countries are racing to build dams.
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They feature cars (both driven and driverless), the power grid, dams, and tunnel ventilation systems.
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Refineries and dams were built, but there was no long-term agricultural or economic strategy.
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Typha became an international problem after the construction of two dams between Senegal and Mauritania.
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To make way for the dams, Lat Thahae and dozens more villages are being demolished.
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Dams are also a foolhardy investment: in our changing climate, desert reservoirs are drying up.
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It was on an internal list of 10 dams at risk of bursting, they learned.
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That would hardly revolutionize energy in Latin America's biggest country, powered mostly by hydroelectric dams.
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Considered as a whole, hydroelectric dams emit a billion tons of greenhouse gases per year.
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Moreover, the number of high-hazard potential dams continues to increase as our population rises.
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The state has been experiencing heavy rainfall that has resulted in dams filling to capacity.
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In a single day, forty inches of rain fell and more than fifty dams collapsed.
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Two massive dams were erected to change Petersburg Pond into what is now Lake Swannanoa.
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Apartment towers, highways, bridges, skyscrapers, metros, dams: Each of them swallows unimaginable helpings of sand.
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DHS defined 85033 unique CI sectors, including water/dams, transportation, finance, telecommunications and energy/electrical.
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In California, reservoirs are overflowing and dams are under siege after a surprisingly wet winter.
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Many scientists favor removing dams on some rivers to save the orcas and the fish.
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"The best thing you could do to get more spring Chinook for the orcas is to remove those four lower dams," said Don Chapman, a retired fisheries scientist who worked as a consultant to the hydropower industry and defended the dams and mitigation efforts.
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It's not fair to tell nations like Cambodia and Laos that they should not build dams.
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The government is also keeping the auction of the Cemig dams, which is scheduled for Sept.
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That's overtaxed the system of existing dams and made the Oroville situation all the more dangerous.
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California is home to more than 2,500 dams, which plug the vast majority of its waterways.
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He was referring to China's snapping up of oilfields, mines, ports, giant dams and power grids.
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It built levees, dikes and dams along thousands of miles of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
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Jacobson has since admitted that providing this much extra power from existing dams would be hard.
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Why it matters: Dragos specializes in securing the hardware that runs power plants, factories and dams.
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The federal government stepped in and built (and still manages) many of the dams and pumps.
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The price would be causing environmental and social damage on the scale that earlier dams did.
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Many officials, in their posts for decades, have pet projects, among them dams in the Amazon.
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Cape Town gets almost all of its water from rain-fed dams north of the city.
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That could force Canada to do costly work on its dams to allow fish to pass.
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That includes wiping yourself down and disposing of any condoms or dental dams that you use.
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But it is also because dams upstream cut off water just when it was most needed.
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By midsummer, 250,000 young men have jobs building dams, draining marshlands, and working in the forests.
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I think of Dams of the West as a sustainable concurrent thing related to Vampire Weekend.
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Work on the two dams has not started yet, prosecutors say, an assertion the company disputes.
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No land where the dams are meant to be built has yet been acquired, prosecutors say.
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Beavers spend as much time bonding with their life partners as they do building dams. 17.
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However, they act as sort of dams, keeping land-based glaciers from flowing into the sea.
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The setting in Cincinnati let Trump focus heavily on water infrastructure like dams, locks and canals.
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Most winters, this ice gets blocked by natural ice dams that form in the narrow channel.
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It adds threats such as over-fishing, harmful logging and disruptions of water supplies from dams.
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Dams on the Lancang have already added thousands more, mostly poor rural farmers, to the total.
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Sediment carried downstream can help repair coastal erosion, but not if dams trap it in reservoirs.
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But he said the government's "mega projects" – new national railways, roads and dams – would go ahead.
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Their way of life remains under threat from loggers, mining concerns, ranchers, dams and road-building.
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At least 10 dams have been built on two of them, the Mekong and the Yangtze.
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Kasukuwere said nearly 2,000 people were homeless, 74 schools were damaged and 70 dams had burst.
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He published an article soon afterward taking himself to task for his support of the dams.
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Two dams have collapsed at mine sites in the countryside, releasing millions of gallons of waste.
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The lowest lying of the dams under discussion, Cambodia's dam at Sambor, lies around 228km upriver.
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Some Chinese miners get hydroelectric power from disused dams, while others use cheap coal-powered electricity.
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Hydropower dams, seen in some quarters as a green alternative to fossil fuels, inundate their villages.
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Clogged gutters can cause your roof to leak and lead to ice dams in cold weather.
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Along the Missouri, John Remus controls a network of dams that dictates the fate of millions.
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Here's why: Since the revolution in 22011, Iran has built a crazy number of hydroelectric dams.
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Even so, government leaders, engineers and private contractors remain wedded to the promise of large dams.
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The dams will not be able to generate enough power when demand peaks as temperatures rise.
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Record rainfall flooded rivers and tested dams as almost four million people were urged to evacuate.
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The Laotian government is relying on money borrowed from China to fund many of these dams.
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Dams can resemble waterfalls, and small ponds are formed by the water that is held back.
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One winemaker said the recent rainfall brought six inches of rain, which replenished the farm's dams.
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In Oregon and California, four dams on the Klamath River are due for removal by 2241.
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Before dams were built, paddlefish were highly migratory, often swimming hundreds of miles upstream to spawn.
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Floods also weigh on output, as CNR is forced to open dams to evacuate excess water.
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For example, communities can reduce hazard by building flood control structures, such as dams and levees.
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Dams can also be dangerous ventures for developing countries lacking adequate planning and readiness for disasters.
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Sverdrup gets all electricity via an 160-km undersea power cable connecting it Norway's hydropower dams.
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Growth has been fueled by construction of railways, roads and hydro-electric dams to power industry.
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The cash will be used to buy strategic stocks for food security and construction of dams.
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At thousands of mines around the world, millions of tons of the muck accumulate behind dams.
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" "They have tailings dams all over the world so what are the potential implications for them?
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Industry-wide, regulatory and technical costs will rise as everyone tries to make tailings dams safer.
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Where Mars' lakes were confined in crater basins, Earth's glacial lakes are contained within icy dams.
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Rivers, water pans and dams are drying up as a result of the prolonged dry spell.
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As Vale tries to lower its risk for future ruptures of tailings dams filled with the muddy debris of mining, the company told Reuters earlier that it planned to spend $2.5 billion on so-called "dry processing" over the next five years, which makes such dams unnecessary.
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Congress took an early step last year by passing a water-infrastructure bill authorizing FEMA to establish a grant program to identify and rehabilitate "high hazard" dams that would be especially dangerous if they failed (about 17 percent of the nation's 87,000 dams fall in this category).
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Street signs, town names, rivers, mountains, dams, even airports, have lost their Afrikaans monikers in recent years.
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The Miranda, São Simão, Jaguara and Volta Grande dams have a combined generation capacity of 2.9 gigawatts.
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"Only 12 dams have been ruptured in the past," said a French expert working with Khatib & Alami.
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A "bold" investment plan would also speed up the process of making dams more secure, he said.
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Dams will also be built along the Saigon River bank to help control flooding, the government said.
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Charlie's Water Mountain has a spray area, mist area, tunnels, dams and streams, and a water lab.
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The environmental impact of dams may drastically change the economies and social structures of communities, Kramer added.
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The government intends to build more than 30 dams in the Amazon over the next three decades.
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That's why the dams are crucial; they help provide water and prevent flooding at the same time.
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"Firm" low-carbon resources including nuclear, natural gas with carbon capture and hydro-dams with large reservoirs.
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Laura gave me a full tour of the world of sexual barriers, including condoms and dental dams.
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But only a portion of the money is intended to improve the federal government's high-hazard dams.
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Back in the US, aging dams all over the country are seeing the end of their lives.
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President Donald Trump is including locks and dams in his grand plan to invest $1trn in infrastructure.
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The government also invested in huge infrastructure projects such as high-speed railways, highways, airports and dams.
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Vale will cut 10 percent of its output by decommissioning 10 dams, Chief Executive Fabio Schvartsman said.
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But then a first wave of immigrants arrived — Tai Dams, an ethnic minority from Vietnam and Laos.
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Similar tailings dams, which exist in their thousands around the world, mock mining's mantra of "safety first".
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But the ICMM is industry-led and Mackenzie has called for an independent body to oversee dams.
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So the countries have time to build new dams; but that will need even greater co-operation.
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The spoil banks act as dams inside the basin, damaging the local ecosystem by stopping water flow.
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The dams that hold the South African city's water supply are now at just 26% of capacity.
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The charges against Rotich relate to a project to build two hydro-electric dams in the country.
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But from China to South America, dams cause controversy for flooding fragile ecosystems and displacing local communities.
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About 99 percent of its domestic energy needs are fed with electricity generated in its hydropower dams.
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Picture this: Residents lining up for water, and soon, if there's no rain to help replenish dams.
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Dams team absolutely dominated in the first half of the season after winning the season one trophy.
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There are other reasons to reconsider dams: many of them, like our roads and bridges, are aging.
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It was a grim reminder that some of our dams are already coming down, without our help.
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Similar, if less dramatic, benefits would accrue from dredging waterways, repairing dams and locks, and other projects.
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To the planners, the case for building dams is obvious: they generate electricity and much-needed cash.
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The most common way of dealing with red mud is storing it in tailings dams or ponds.
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That way of life was completely lost with the construction of the dams on the Columbia River.
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It is also in the process of building two tail-end dams and one hazardous waste dam.
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People in both parties agree something needs to be done about America's ailing bridges, dams, and roads.
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Brazil has dozens of tailings dams, which hold back byproducts generated during the extraction of mineral resources.
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But then dams, especially on the Missouri River, eliminated the riverside beaches that these tiny birds need.
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Development experts, as well, say charity won't be enough to build the volume of dams Pakistan needs.
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But critics of the project said dams have an outsized impact on the environment and local ecosystems.
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" In Laos, he said, with 55 dams under construction, "it's almost too much to pay attention to.
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But loss of habitat, dams and pollution have been diminishing their population in the past half century.
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Four dams are slated for removal from the Klamath River alone in California and Oregon by 2020.
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Beijing has been financing and operating several hydroelectric dams on the river, with more in the pipeline.
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Before the dams came out, biologists began studying the river's fish to better understand the baseline conditions.
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It was the beginning of a project that ultimately removed two hydropower dams and modified six others.
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Under the legislation, the corps is able to address the country's dams, ports and flood resistance efforts.
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The Klamath dams took a healthy, dynamic river ecosystem and replaced it with a shadow of itself.
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While clean, hydro power isn't scalable because we can't put rivers or dams all over the country.
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But adding more dams would require inundating an even larger area with water, which could spark protests.
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"When it comes to the safety policy for these dams, nothing – absolutely nothing – has changed," Sampaio said.
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Most of Washington's electricity comes from hydroelectric dams and other renewable sources, which would not be taxed.
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"The dams have violated social rights and environmental safeguards producing disastrous results for the rainforest," he said.
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The repeated calls to donate, though, drill home the same message: Pakistan needs the dams to survive.
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Chinese leaders have erected dams near the water's origins, keeping it from draining into India and Bangladesh.
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As a result of these downgrades, roads, dams, electrical lines, and pipes began to cover Yosemite's fringes.
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Pebble Mine with its slipshod dams and shortsighted planning is finite in the wealth it will bring.
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The total number of large dams built in China after 1949 is estimated at more than 20,000.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority, for instance, scarred the landscape with dams, which chop river ecosystems into pieces.
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The dams cut off the flow of water and created ideal conditions for the weed to grow.
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First, it usually takes its requests for complex projects — like building dams — from states, not the president.
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With water flows shifting as new dams start their turbines, fishers, farmers and local ecosystems are suffering.
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Dams are often built under authoritarian regimes, exacerbating political instability while destroying many citizens' lives and livelihoods.
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The state owns about 100 dams and is reviewing the list to determine which should be removed.
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And with only 3 percent of America's 90,000 dams equipped to generate power, hydropower's potential is immense.
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Several dams were found to be at risk of breaching, putting thousands of people at potential risk.
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Efforts to reduce the levels by controlled releases through gates in both dams have not been sufficient.
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A decade ago, Vietnam urged a moratorium on building Mekong dams until their impact could be studied.
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A decade ago, Vietnam urged a moratorium on building Mekong dams until their impact could be studied.
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The greatest impact comes from eight large dams that have warmed the waters and blocked migration routes.
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Breaching the dams also would help keep water temperatures cooler as the climate changes, Dr. Chapman said.
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Iranian hackers have previously been accused of cyber infiltrations on US banks, dams and other critical infrastructure.
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Hengduan's Yang suspects small plants are being shut down to free up grid access for bigger dams.
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Puerto Rico's roads, bridges, dams, ports, hospitals, water treatment plants and more have been decaying for years.
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The net present value for the planned dams is estimated at negative $7.3 billion, the study found.
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Fixing them would require $20 billion, and rehabilitating less seriously faulty dams would cost $40 billion more.
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So how we operate dams as well as other water infrastructure is going to have to change.
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The mining industry puts lives at risk with shoddy maintenance of dams built to contain mining waste.
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The dams may damage the glaciers in Argentina's Los Glaciares National Park, a Unesco World Heritage Site.
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The river is the country's primary water source and already has two dams downstream from the new sites.
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New dams have turned the country into an electricity exporter and it has a rapidly expanding transport network.
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As dams and other infrastructure have weakened, development on flood plains has also heightened our flood risk overall.
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Brown also ordered emergency action plans and flood inundation maps be available for all dams in the state.
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I would be surprised if the office of the special counsel frankly gave two dams about the midterms.
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So expecting that dams in the country could boost their output might be harder than the analysis implies.
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In China, it would save as much as eight Three Gorges dams (the largest dam in the world).
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Dams — the team that runs Renault's race operations in Formula E — won the championship in the first season.
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The federal government only controls four percent of dams, and a full sixty-nine percent are privately held.
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The system coped well with two years of drought, but the third has drained the dams (see chart).
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Experts from Ethiopia, which is also building new hydro-electric dams, would advise the government, Magufuli's office said.
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Whooshh's Bryan doesn't take a position on whether more hydropower dams should come down, which would free fish.
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WMTF experts say tailings dams fail at ten times the rate of reservoirs, mostly because of poor drainage.
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South Africa's dams have dropped 16 percent since October and are expected to take three years to recover.
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So the rodents have been allowed to re-establish their dams, including one within view of downtown Napa.
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Large-scale farming is really only possible in California's Imperial Valley or central Arizona because of these dams.
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The Federal Aviation Administration announced new rules for drone use around key US landmarks including monuments and dams.
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More than 5 billion condoms are bought worldwide every year, but many queer women forego dental dams altogether.
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Brazil's National Mining Agency is talking about banning all tailings dams similar to that which collapsed at Brumadinho.
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Heavy rain had not been forecast and blaming the dams for the flooding was "not justifiable", he said.
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Dams built in neighboring Iran on its tributaries to the Tigris have also contributed to low water levels.
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In Deloria's time, that infrastructure was dams, which flooded forests and farmland on many reservations, including Standing Rock.
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Worse, the planners underestimate the harm that dams will do to ecosystems as well as to food security.
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CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that the Addicks and Barker dams are in Galveston.
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The dams control the flow of water into Buffalo Bayou, a winding Houston river surrounded by residential areas.
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The dam would have been one of Brazil's largest hydroelectric dams with a capacity of about 8,000 megawatts.
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The city has experienced three consecutive years of drought, and rains needed to refill dams have not come.
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In other setbacks, Pakistan and Nepal pulled out of deals to build dams due to disagreements over terms.
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He said he was not allowed to identify specific dams, but that Oroville was not on the list.
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Over the years, government agencies and state firms have proposed building multiple dams along the 1,700-mile river.
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The China Society for Hydropower Engineering, an academic research group, has criticised the "blind" closure of small dams.
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The China Society for Hydropower Engineering, an academic research group, has criticised the "blind" closure of small dams.
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Much of the water used in Pakistan comes from its two largest dams - the Tarbela and the Mangla.
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Until we start caring about safer oral sex, dental dams are always going to be a fringe product.
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India has built dams and plans to link rivers to ease availability, measures that are opposed by conservationists.
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"You can find plenty of dams in Laos that have zero mitigation efforts built into them," said Eyler.
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Vale, in turn, reiterated its commitment to completely eliminate nine remaining upstream dams that have already been deactivated.
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Some of the hydroelectric dams have already disrupted the hunting and fishing traditions of the Cree living nearby.
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Other data centers have long been situated near big dams, which provide cheap as well as green power.
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Environmentalist climate hawks may have to tolerate large-scale carbon sequestration or new rivers given over to dams.
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Schvartsman said all of Vale's tailings dams were checked after the 2015 disaster and periodic reviews carried out.
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The dams and reservoirs that supply the city of an estimated 2000 million people are running dangerously low.
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We fought enemies together, designed and built roads and dams together, found a way to the Moon together.
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But months later, both the review and investigation are ongoing, and work on approximately 250 dams steadily continues.
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If all goes to plan, this could mean a total of 429 dams on the Mekong by 2030.
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Hydroelectric dams in March accounted for 55 percent of monthly consumption followed by wind power at 42 percent.
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Communities that relied on power from hydro-dams, or farmers who relied on water for crops, would suffer.
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Most of its bribes were paid to get contracts from governments to build roads, bridges, dams and highways.
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There are ads on the radio and TV that go "Ao Dams Banain Hum" (Let's Build a Dam).
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The other concern is there are two dams west of here called the Addicks and the Barker reservoirs.
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For the first time in history, wind turbines created more electricity than the longtime renewable champ, hydroelectric dams.
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The Army Corps of Engineers was monitoring federal dams, helping with rescues, and deploying pumps and portable barriers.
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Before the dams went up, the river was the third-largest producer of salmon in the United States.
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Critics worry that the cost of these dams is being borne by governments ill equipped to afford it.
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The pyre's iconography will portray some of the king's accomplishments, including dams, wind farms, reservoirs and irrigation projects.
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State officials are motivated partly by a concern for public safety, since aging dams can suddenly give way.
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Building dams and reservoirs can also require disrupting surrounding ecosystems and, in some cases, forcing communities to move.
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We built bridges and roads and dams to make life easier, to light cities, to invest in tomorrow.
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The modifications can enable 50 to 80 percent of fish to get past the dams, Dr. Kauffman said.
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The eight large dams along the Snake and Columbia rivers created 325 miles of slack water in reservoirs.
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As many of our dams reach the end of their useful design life, they need a retirement plan.
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Only a common effort to build huge dams and dig hundreds of kilometres of canals could do so.
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They use words like 'resilience' and 'mitigation' and highlight levees, dams, culverts and other efforts to address stormwater.
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Better though are criteria that allow new dams only where other local clean-energy resources are not available.
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The problem is especially urgent in Southeast Asia, where dams are constructed in the Mekong River for hydropower.
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The Myitsone was meant to be the first and largest of seven dams planned by the Chinese developer.
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The pressure on dams and other parts of the system is expected to rise as global warming continues.
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Sometimes dams are not even mentioned—but even when they are, using them effectively is not self-evident.
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That will put extra stresses on dams and farmers and is likely to lead to more severe mudslides.
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The "million-man army" would swap Kalashnikovs for shovels and set to work building roads, dams and housing.
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Campaign against dams drew praise, threats A member of the Lenca indigenous group and co-founder of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras, Cáceres led a successful campaign against one of Central America's biggest hydropower projects, the Agua Zarca cascade of four giant dams in the Gualcarque River basin.
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Cambodia (two dams of its own planned) and Vietnam (no suitable sites for dams at all), worried about the impacts that the Xayaburi dam will have on fisheries and water flow, have lodged objections with the Mekong River Commission that was set up by Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam in 1995.
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Given that there are thousands of tailings dams around the world, and that mining companies generate ever more waste — they produced 8.5 billion metric tons in 2017, more than double the amount in 2000, according to an Australian researcher — the dams pose a danger that arresting a few workers won't address.
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The dams represent an existential question for Cambodia in its quest to electrify: are the benefits worth the costs?
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They are spending millions of dollars a year clearing silt from their dams, with some – especially Sudan - suffering flooding.
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Elsewhere, four dams being closely watched by a state team of special engineers were holding up, North Carolina Gov.
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Seven of them are so-called upstream tailings dams, the same type as the one that ruptured in Brumadinho.
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Supporters of new infrastructure projects like dams in the Amazon say Brazil needs investment, clean energy and construction jobs.
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The proposed capacity revisions would not affect the hydro dams' obligations, but would reduce their potential to generate revenue.
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Cities may benefit more from saving wetlands, forests and other forms of "green infrastructure" than building big new dams.
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Though less destructive than conventional dams, which require bigger reservoirs, they still provoke opposition from people like the Munduruku.
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That fluctuation poses a challenge to the primary roles of California dams: storing water and mitigating threats of flood.
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Even in heavy rains, water is held behind the dams' embankments and then moves through gates into the bayou.
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At their peak, the dams held back more than 140 billion gallons of water during the storm, he added.
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Governments have preferred big, showy dams and canals to investing in urban sewage networks or enforcing rules on effluents.
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But we could be doing much more to harness the huge potential of hydropower, even without building new dams.
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Kinyanjui said there was an investigation underway to see if Patel actually had a license to operate the dams.
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A local governor said there was an investigation to see if Patel had a license to operate the dams.
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Berta Cáceres, an indigenous leader who was a prominent campaigner against dams and plantations, was murdered there last March.
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Alabama, for example, doesn't currently have a dam safety regulatory program, but it does have 201 high-hazard dams.
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Much of its economic growth came from state spending on roads, industrial parks, giant dams and Africa's biggest airline.
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The government can also consider the importance of steel to America's "critical infrastructure", including chemical production, communications and dams.
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Dams have failed, levees breached and other infrastructure stripped away as raging floodwaters and chunks of ice move downstream.
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Some engineers report that tailings dams at closed mines in a number of countries are in a perilous condition.
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Global Witness said nearly four people were murdered each week defending their homes from mining, dams and farm projects.
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Vale said on Tuesday it would spend 5 billion reais ($1.3 billion) decommissioning dams like the one that collapsed.
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During World War II, the British Royal Air Force skipped bombs at German dams to avoid underwater torpedo nets.
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The scattered approach has resulted in "roads that act like dams" and neighborhoods built in flood zones, he said.
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