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National Geographic: Eye in the Sky--Floods and Dams
Sky--Floods and Dams  HUMAN  IMPACT Floods and  Dams Ozone and  Pollution Deforestation  and  Desertification Overpopulation They bring both death and the promise of renewed life, often on the same rushing tide. Floods ... . Flash floods, which rise and fall rapidly with little or no warning, and tsunamis—seismic waves caused by undersea earthquakes and volcanoes—also drown people and livestock and ...
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Floods and Dams
Floods and Dams DAMS AND FLOODS (Printed in PanGaia, California) March, 2002 Day by day, river by river, forest by forest, ... Big Dams and 1,000 more under construction. Large dams are problematic for a number of reasons: They dislocate huge populations of people leaving them homeless and destitute, destroy entire forests and they cause floods, salinity and ...
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National Geographic: Eye in the Sky--Floods and Dams
National Geographic: Eye in the Sky--Floods and Dams  HUMAN  IMPACT Floods and  Dams Ozone and  Pollution Deforestation  and  Desertification Overpopulation Natural flooding of rivers revitalizes the habitats of many plants and animals and enriches soils for planting. But floods can bring misery and death to those who live in their paths. Dams bring their own variety of mixed blessings.
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WELL - Resource Centre Network for Water, Sanitation and Environmental Health
B.C. Records show that people knew about rainfall regimes, soil types and irrigation techniques, dams, canals, tanks and embankments. They developed a range of techniques to harvest every possible ... time. The improper management of storm water causes floods and droughts every year in the country. Harvesting and conserving this rainwater for domestic and small-scale irrigation use is the most ...
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Water Use and Management
Canada is the largest producer of hydroelectricity, followed by the United States and Brazil. Built to provide hydropower and irrigation water and to regulate river flow to prevent floods and ...
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Ecology and Mormon Colonization in the Little Colorado River Basin, Arizona
In addition, regional developments affected individual communities differently. For example, while higher temperatures threatened crops at Woodruff and ...
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Ministry of Environment - Water Stewardship Division - Water Rights and Legislation
Environment Water Stewardship Division Water Rights and Legislation Planning, Protection and Sustainability Science and Information Public Safety: Floods, Dikes, Dams and Droughts Popular Topics River Forecast Centre Groundwater ... BC Ministry of Health B.C. Health Authorities Ministry of Agriculture and Lands Environment Canada WaterBucket Government Quick access to information based on ...
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Ministry of Environment - Water Stewardship Division - Planning, Protection and Sustainability
Water Stewardship Division Water Rights and Legislation Planning, Protection and Sustainability Science and Information Public Safety: Floods, Dikes, Dams and Droughts Popular Topics River Forecast ... , Protection & Sustainability Water Stewardship Planning, Protection and Sustainability With increasing population, industrial, and agricultural growth and the potential impacts of climate change, now ...
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Dams
Dams There are in excess of 45,000 large dams worldwide, providing water for domestic, industrial and agricultural use, generating electricity, controlling floods and ...
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THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CHANGING WATER QUALITY ON IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE IN THE LOWER VAAL AND RIET RIVERS
These observations are pronounced below the confluence of the Riet and the Harts Rivers, indicating that irrigation itself, ... farmers are using and managing their on-farm storage dams properly. This constraint is however initially required to get farmers to install drainage and build on-farm storage dams. Constraining irrigation ...
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