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    Need of Dams in Pakistan

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    Pakistan: Meeting Energy‚ Fiscal Needs Lead story from September issue of Centerpoint While in many respects a troubled country‚ Pakistan in recent years has experienced robust economic growth. Panelists at a recent Asia Program conference‚ however‚ speculated that underlying fiscal problems might be jeopardizing that growth. Meanwhile‚ higher energy consumption has placed greater strains on the country’s energy resources. During President Bush’s visit to Pakistan earlier this year‚ he and the

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    Three Gorges Dam

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    To what extent is ‘The Three Gorges Dam’ a Sustainable way of Generating Electricity The Three Gorges Dam‚ located in central China‚ is one of most ambitious projects in terms of construction. It also has the largest capacity of reservoir that can generate twenty two thousand‚ five hundred megawatts of electricity per an hour with an efficiency rate of ninety four percent (International). There are thirty two main turbines‚ each producing seven hundred megawatts of electricity per hour‚ with two

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    delineation of san roque dam

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    elevations and stream valleys. A watershed carries water "shed" from the land after rain falls and snow melts. Drop by drop‚ water is channeled into soils‚ groundwater‚ creeks‚ and streams‚ making its way to larger rivers and eventually the sea. Water is a universal solvent‚ affected by all that it comes in contact with: the land it traverses‚ and the soils through which it travels. The important thing about watersheds is: what we do on the land affects water quality for all communities living downstream

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    POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF DAMS ON THE ENVIRONMENT The human being has been struggling in order to shape the ecosphere in a man- ner he wants since the first day. The period in which this struggle was observed most intensively was the period covering the transition from a migrant and primitive hunter society to a resident life and fa rming. The most deep-seated environmental modification against the nature that had been realized in the history of the human being has started at this time. Even

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    Northwest Coast Tribes

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    Northwest Coast Tribal Masks This paper describes the Sea Bear Transformation Mask‚ created by Don Svanvik in 2000‚ and how it reflects Northwest Coast Indian art and culture‚ specific to the Kwakiutl tribe. A transformation mask is a large mask with hinged shutters that‚ when open‚ reveal another mask. Audrey and Alan Bleviss gave this mask to the Montclair Art Museum in 2005. The medium consists of red cedar‚ cedar bark‚ copper‚ pigment‚ and string. In the Montclair Art Museum‚ the mask is displayed

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    Susie Salmons In Heaven

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    In this story‚ the book is being told by the protagonist. Susie Salmon was a 14-year-old who is saying her story from heaven. During the beginning of the book‚ everything seems happy until she tells us how she was murdered. The way this all happened was that she was on her way home from school until her neighbor had invited her to come take a look at his field but afterwards he kept asking her personal questions that started to make her scared and as soon as she wanted to leave he didn’t let her

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    Top Ten Biggest Dams in Asia

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    The Ten Biggest Dams in Asia Human’s never ending need of water dates back from the start of our existence. In the earlier days our ancestors have always been relying on the naturally occurring dams found in nature. But with the rapid increase of population‚ these natural dams are now very insufficient in providing enough water to supply the peoples demand for water. With a problem comes a solution‚ our early ancestors needed to find a more efficient way of getting and storing water for their needs

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    Just Tap It: The Negative Effects of Bottled Water “In Canada‚ bottled water consumption was estimated at 24.4 litres per person in 1999. By 2005‚ that had increased to about 60 litres per person‚ with sales worth $652.7 million” (CBC News‚ 2008). This dramatic increase in bottled water consumption does not come without severe repercussions and has caused a chain reaction of unfortunate events. Although easily available and terribly convenient‚ bottled water negatively effects the environment‚ is extremely

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    fuels). Hydroelectric Power The most widely used type of renewable energy is hydroelectricity. Most hydroelectric energy comes from the potential energy of dammed water driving a turbine to generate electricity‚ but variations of hydroelectric energy uses the kinetic energy of undammed water. Ultimately‚ hydroelectric power is a combination of solar energy and gravitational potential energy. Sun¡¯s radiant energy causes water to evaporate and move to higher elevation‚ and water gains gravitational

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    Wolf Creek Dam

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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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