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    The Banqiao Dam

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    The banqiao dam Causing more than any other dam failure in history‚ and was rebuilt The DAM FALIURES killed an estimated 171‚000 people; 11 million people lost their homes. It also caused the sudden loss of 18 GW of power ‚ the TOTAL of roughly 9 very large modern coal-fired power stations or about 20 nuclear reactors‚ equaling about 1/3 the peak demand on the UK National Grid. According to the Hydrology Department of Henan Province approximately 26‚000 people die from FLOODING and

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    Salmon Farming Benefits

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    Do the benefits of salmon farming outweigh any detrimental effects? Worldwide‚ the salmon farming industry has witnessed extraordinary growth since the 1980’s with Chile‚ Canada‚ Norway and UK emerging as some of the largest producers (Eagle et al‚ 2004). Salmon farming is the process of harvesting salmon in cages or pens‚ usually offshore‚ as opposed to traditional capture fisheries.The economic and food production benefits of salmon farming (Salmo salar) will first be discussed. However there

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    The Three Gorges Dam

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    Name: LE VAN HUNG The three Gorges Dam 1. What stakeholders have been helped by the Three Gorges Dam? What stakeholders have been hurt by it? The Three Gorges Dam provided electricity for the stakeholders‚ it was very important for the developing of china’s economic‚ where the demand for electricity was increase and increase rapidly. It also controlled the water at the safe level. Thus‚ it could reduce the flood. Furthermore‚ Hydroelectric was a safe energy for the environment‚ it

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    Lettuce Salmon Wraps

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    Lettuce Salmon Wraps If you want a hearty‚ tasty treat to enjoy‚ you’ll find that this will be one of the best meals for you! You can add a bit of tofu into the mix if you prefer‚ but raw fish is the ingredient that will be added in this recipe. You’ll have to make sure that it’s very fresh‚ as raw fish can be dangerous if not eaten immediately. Ingredients: For this dish‚ you will need: 1 carrot 1 mango 4 ounces of salmon 1 cup of raw almond butter ½ head of cabbage 2 lemons ¼ cup of

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    The Sardar Sarovar Dam

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    THE SARDAR SAROVAR DAM The Sardar Sarovar Dam is a gravity dam on the Narmada River near Navagam‚ Gujarat in India. It is the largest dam and part of the Narmada Valley Project‚ a large hydraulic engineering project involving the construction of a series of large irrigation and hydroelectric multi-purpose dams on the Narmada River. The project took form in 1979 as part of a development scheme to increase irrigation and produce hydroelectricity. One of the 30 dams planned on river Narmada‚ Sardar

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    Poondi Dam

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    TIRUVALLUR/CHENNAI: The shutters of Sathyamurthy Sagar reservoir in Poondi were opened on Wednesday to release surplus water as the storage shot up to just a foot below the full capacity. Due to the heavy downpour‚ the inflow from surrounding catchment areas was about 3‚700 cusecs. The dam also received about 570 cusecs from the Krishna Drinking Water Supply channel. Tiruvallur District Collector Pankaj Kumar Bansal and Government Chief Whip P.M. Narasimhan released the shutters of the link canal

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    The Hoover Dam

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    The Hoover Dam – Major Deliverable and Biggest Challenges When the Hoover Dam was built‚ the concept of Project Management was most likely not very close to what it is today. Back then‚ the things that got built‚ buildings‚ dams and so on‚ all had the basic simple goal of just being completed. I am sure that the major deliverable of the project was to complete the dam and use it to produce electricity (hydro-electric) for a large area of the great southwest and as well provide a water source for

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    Mangla Dam

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    reservoirs at Mangala‚ Chashma and Tarbala (estimated about 3 MAF by the year 2000) Providing additional storage to meet existing water shortages during early Kharif sowing period of April-June Regulation and control of high flood peaks in the Indus to enable provision of perennial tubewell irrigation to the riverain area in Sindh. As part of controversy on Kalabagh Dam‚ a number of apprehensions/doubts have been expressed both by upper (NWFP) and lower (Sindh) riparian provinces. Most of these are

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    Three Gorges Dam

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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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    Aswan High Dam

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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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