Advantages of hydro power ADVANTAGES: * Once a dam is constructed‚ electricity can be produced at a constant rate. * If electricity is not needed‚ the sluice gates can be shut‚ stopping electricity generation. The water can be saved for use another time when electricity demand is high. * Dams are designed to last many decades and so can contribute to the generation of electricity for many years / decades. * The lake that forms behind the dam can be used for water sports
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Lake Allatoona Ecosystem Structure‚ Function‚ and Change Ezzell Grant SCI/256 People‚ Science‚ and the Environment July 6‚ 2013 Gregory Bordner The major structural and functional dynamics (processes) of the Lake Allatoona ecosystem has gone through drastic changes over time. Georgia is one of the most authentically distinctly states in the country‚ composing through the heights and valleys of northern Georgia to a masses of acres of the rural areas in the southern areas; to the
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Hoover Dam Bypass: The Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge The bridge was built to be take the traffic away from the Hoover Dam which had just turned 75 years old and cannot hold the traffic anymore. The Hoover Dam was not able to hold the 14‚000 thousand cars that drive across the dam every day. To help preserve the dam Arizona and Nevada built The Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. This was a huge project between both states that would end up cost them $240 million. The
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Aversion to Diversion Discussion Chapter four‚ Aversion to Diversion discussed the idea of diversion in the water system many project through out the the 60’s-90’s were proposed; one of the most daring engineering schemes ever in regards to water. The chapter touched on damming the canyon‚ the north American water and power alliance‚ and different regulations put in place for this proposed plan. It Also discussed the pros and cons to damming the canyon in which the cons outweighed the pros. There
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Using the primary data and secondary data write a paragraph explaining what is happening in Beechmont that is putting pressure on farming in the area and the impacts it is having on Providence Farm: As represented in the data above‚ it is seen that the pressure on dairy production in Beechmont is continually increasing‚ impacting farms such as Providence farm. Beechmont is a rural area‚ therefore does not provide much educational‚ health services or high profit job opportunities. As a result‚ the
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The Uttarakhand Tragedy In June 2013‚ a multi-day cloudburst centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand caused devastating floods and landslides in the country’s worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami. Though some parts of Himachal Pradesh‚ Haryana‚ Delhi and Uttar Pradesh in India‚ some regions of Western Nepal‚ and some parts of Western Tibet also experienced heavy rainfall‚ over 95% of the casualties occurred in Uttarakhand. As of 16 July 2013‚ according to figures provided by
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Chuck Delagol Period 1 2/12/13 Ulysses S. Grant was a war hero and the 18th president of the United States. During his two year term he was criticized for a number of things. One major thing that negatively affected his political career was that he trusted too easily. As a result of this‚ members of his cabinet‚ and lower administration got away with everything from financial mismanagement to theft. Once word of this got out he lost support within his own party. Despite immense efforts‚ Grant
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over 92 deaths occur each year from floods. Again we cannot get away from the need of rain‚ but is there really a need for flooding?
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Expierence has shown that every time we have a heavy rain fall ….a large sections of our base get flooded by rain water. Some time …just like today most offices in the Well system‚ OWS and Petrotesting also get flooded. This morning while it was raining we had to cut off electric power supply to the OWS and Petrotesting sections of our base as the level of the water in the offices was high enough to cover some electrical power suckets on the walls. Also back in my own office I observed some
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Bangladesh Floods 1998 [pic] ----------------------- Prediction: ← Bangladesh is built on delta and floodplain of the Ganges‚ Brahmaputra‚ Meghna River‚ this area is expected to flood. ← The annual flood is expected and is needed to make the land fertile for farming. ← Upwards of 300 million people live on the Ganges delta‚ and this is increasing. Effects: ← 2379 people died. ← Destruction of communication network meant it was impossible to deliver food and medical
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