at the time could have been minimized. However‚ typhoon Nina smashed many records‚ as well as the dam itself. One night in August 1975‚ Typhoon Nina dropped more than a year’s worth of rain in just 24 hours. The dam collapsed in the oncoming flood‚ and other dams further along the river collapsed too. A 10 km wide wave devastated the surrounding areas‚. Hundreds of thousands more were affected by the spread of famine which followed the disaster. How Would How engineers fix it? Although
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Around the world the most important recourse we have is water‚ we all need it. In Egypt the Nile River is one their biggest source of water. The Aswan High Dam is in Egypt and sits on the Nile River. The Dam has helped control the Nile‚ which would flood every year in late summer. The construction of the Aswan High Dam started in 1960. As the Dam was built it created Lake Nasser. This Lake has become a big fishing industry; it can produce up 25‚000 tons of fish. The creation of the Lake also created
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Most residents from Yuma work with agriculture. A negative of starting irrigation systems and canals in Yuma County was floods. Sometimes the Colorado River would overflow from too much rainfall‚ other River water or the break of a canal would cause flooding in Yuma County. Yuma County had a major flood in 1916 caused by the break of a canal. How were they going to irrigate the water across all of Yuma County? Yuma has one main
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The switch in time saves nine One of the proverbs I find most useful in life is the one of Thomas Fuller – a British writer: “A stitch in time saves nine”. It is a well known proverb. It is frequently used in conversation. It passes on from one hand to another like a current coin A stitch in time saves nine” is an idiom‚ which is a phrase whose symbolic or intended meaning is different from the literal meaning of the words themselves. Literally‚ it means that a single stitch (to fix a tear in
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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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TOPIC: ETHICS OF ADMINISTRATION (POAD 8137) Student name: Hung Tran Duy Student ID: 2156098 Question 3: Watch one of the videos (detailed below) on whistle blowing and critically analyze it using the ethics toolkit. Choose one of the videos to discuss critically with reference to ethical frameworks. The video “The totally avoidable a tragedy” (ABC 2009) are chosen to study. I. INTRODUCTION The video ’A totally avoidable tragedy’ (ABC 2009) presents the situation of the deaths of five local people
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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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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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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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