THE KALABAGH DAM CONTROVERSY www.metacoustics.com.au Submitted to: Mr. Ali Shahrukh Pracha Submitted by: Amirah Hashmi INTRODUCTION The Kalabagh dam controversy has been the highlight of attention since a long time now. Every now and then an issue is raised and left unsorted leaving the related provinces further confused as Pakistan’s government has not been able to decide between the two contrasting point of views since the last 27 years (1984‚ since its design was presented)(Iftikhar‚2005)
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resources making vulnerable to this hazard. Forms of Biological Hazards: 1. Independent Biological Hazard • Contributes to‚ develop into & exacerbate vulnerability leading to disaster (e.g. HIV-AIDs) 2. Dependent BH e.g. war » famine » malnutrition » diseases » less resistance to diseases » deaths 3. Trigger of disaster e.g. pest infestation-famine (Irish famine 1845-1848) Important factors of vulnerability on biological hazards: 1. Micro-environment; (risk at refugee camps e.g. poor water
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— Investing in the Human Factor 28th Annual USSD Conference Portland‚ Oregon‚ April 28 - May 2‚ 2008 Hosted by Portland General Electric On the Cover Portland General Electric’s North Fork Dam‚ on the Clackamas River southeast of Portland‚ is a thin‚ variable-radius concrete arch dam with a maximum height of 207 feet and a thickness varying from 32 feet at the base to 8 feet at the crest. The spillway is a 200-foot-long gated ogee-type structure with a 250-foot-long reinforced concrete
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This is the case of the Belo Monte dam‚ and many other similar projects as well‚ that are developed along the Amazon (essential zone for the survival of the Earth) and in many other places of South America and the world. Economic progress must not‚ under any circumstance‚ go against the social and environmental progress. When this happens‚ the ways of growth must be reformulated. In Belo Monte’s situation‚ its construction began without the proper environmental and social impact studies‚ taking away
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Polavaram Project is a multi-purpose irrigation project which has been accorded national project status by the central government.[1] This dam across the Godavari River is under construction. It is located in West Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh state of India. PURPOSE National River-Linking Project‚ which works under the aegis of the Indian Ministry of Water Resources‚ was designed to overcome the deficit in water in the country. As a part of this plan‚ surplus water from the Himalayanrivers
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The Three Gorges Dam‚ when completed‚ will be the largest dam ever constructed‚ spanning 2.3 kilometers and holding back more then 39 billion cubic meters of water (Three Gorges). In 2007‚ the population hit 1.3 billion. The strain on China’s resources is immense and because of this China has had to invest in many large projects throughout the country. One of its most important needs is energy. China’s power consumption in 2005 was 2.494 trillion kilowatt hours (Cunningham 327). China has built dozens
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Warragamba Dam is the primary reservoir of water supply for Sydney and the Blue Mountains as one of the largest domestic water supplies in the world. It is located 65 km west of Sydney CBD‚ as shown on the map. It was created by damming the Warragamba River after a population boom and a horrific drought in Australia after WW1. Building began in the late 1940s until it was completed in 1960. It took 1‚800 workers and led to a town being built next to site‚ in order to house these workers. The dam covers
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Aswan High Dam The Nile River runs through Egypt and Sudan. It has a lot of power that needed to be capture. To capture this power the Aswan Dam was built. This dam could not quite get the job done. Thus‚ the High Dam at Aswan was built. In a relatively rainless region‚ it is only because of the Nile River’s annual flood that the areas of Egypt and Nubia became habitable and airable. The flood would and could vary greatly
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Essay on The Natural Disaster (Flood In Pakistan) There are many questions emerging from the recent floods in Pakistan‚ ranging from attempts to understand the atmospheric phenomena behind the downpours to the search for where ultimate responsibility lies for the ensuing human calamity. This short essay investigates some of those questions. A pinch of geography is necessary to explain why Pakistan received such an extraordinary amount of rain during this rainy season. The Indian monsoon can
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The Hoover Dam‚ a tremendous barrier holding up the powerful Colorado River‚ was built during the Great Depression. This project gave an average of 21‚000 people a job around the United States‚ hiring six companies. Construction on the Hoover Dam started April 20‚ 1931 and ended March 1‚ 1936; two years ahead of schedule. This was the world’s largest dam at the time; capable of holding 9 trillion gallons of water‚ weighing close to 6.6 million tons requiring 3‚250‚000 cubic yards of concrete as well
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