managed to provide water for developing human activities and demands. Examples of Reservoir Uses of Reservoirs maintain an area’s water supply power generation stabilization of water flow and agricultural irrigation river regulation and flood prevention commercial and recreational fisheries navigational water diversion‚ canalization and waste disposal (in some situations) body contact recreation‚ boating‚ and other aesthetic recreational uses Types of Reservoirs 1. Valley Dammed
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problems that has been sited in the film and are very relevant nowadays. In the movie‚ Noy is living in an uncomfortable and struggling life with his manicurist mother‚ crippled brother and a smart sister. Their family lived in a house floating on flood water. He faked some of his documents‚ his diploma and demo reel‚ and posed to be a journalist to the hope that their status in life would change. He started working on a documentary about Senator Noynoy Aquino which was way back then‚ running for
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ESS Analysis of Hurricanes Thesis Statement: A hurricane is a type of tropical storm that forms in the southern Atlantic Ocean‚ Caribbean Sea‚ Gulf of Mexico‚ and in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Hurricanes can cause significant damage to coastal areas and even several hundred miles inland‚ depending on the strength of the storm. Hurricanes can cause winds above 150 miles per hour and are categorized 1-5‚ depending on the strength of the winds‚ with 1 being the calmest and 5 being the harshest
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and clout also played an important role in both accounts. Governors‚ senators‚ government agencies‚ and people that lived in the area where the accident occurred were pitted against each other in the attempt to determine how to retrieve the drowning victim. In the book Saints at the River‚ dynamite was used in order to recover the bodies of the rescuer and the girl. In the actual account‚ nobody was hurt in the rescue attempt. They only manage to recover a few bones during the actual rescue while
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When the Elwha Dam was demolished it was the largest controlled sediment release in a dam removal project anywhere in the world. Because of the amount of sediment behind large dams like the Elwha‚ the demolition must be done gradually over time to ensure that there is not an overflow of sediment rushed down the river which could cause significant damage to the landscape and the organisms which inhabit it. At the time of the dam removal the Elwha was holding behind it 15‚000‚000 cubic yards of silt
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devastating floods in Pakistan which have left about 20 million homeless the most urgent issue of the Islamic world and called for an immediate humanitarian assistance to Pakistan by Muslim nations and governments including Iran. On 5th Sept. 2010‚ Pakistan’s President expressed his profound gratitude to the Iranian government and people for providing help to the flood-stricken people of Pakistan in these words “Iran was one of the first countries that rushed to deliver aid to the flood-stricken
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water fell from the sky and took the face of a devastating flood that wiped out a major part of the state. Pakistan was always known to be an agricultural state‚ but those fields on which our state’s agriculture relied all the years were all adversely affected. But it wasn’t for the fields that got me to think‚ it was the number of deaths and casualties of my fellow nationals. Their homes were gone‚ they had no food‚ no shelter and then the flood and rainfalls made the situation worse for them. It was
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Ahead of the hurricane’s landfall‚ a station south of Apalachicola reported wind gusts of 79 mph (127 km/h) at an elevation of 115 ft (35 m).[54] At sea level‚ sustained winds reached 52 mph (84 km/h) at Keaton Beach‚ with gusts 67 mph (108 km/h).[55] While moving ashore‚ Hermine produced a 5.8 ft (1.8 m) storm surge at Cedar Key.[56] Heavy rainfall occurred across western Florida‚ reaching 22.36 in (568 mm) over 72 hours at the Lake Tarpon Canal in Pinellas County.[57] The outer rainbands of Hermine
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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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The beavers are an extraordinary creature. They are an animal that is mostly nocturnal‚ large‚ semi-aquatic rodent‚ and are of two different species. These two species are Castor Canadensis and Castor Fiber. They ate certain kinds of tree bark such as willows‚ maples‚ poplars‚ beeches‚ birches‚ alders‚ and aspens. Beavers have been known to erect dams eighteen feet high and four thousand feet long-radically altered ecosystems‚ creating ponds and changing stream flows. These were their homes
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