Instead of building a great wall across the Xingu to create a massive reservoir, Belo Monte is designed as a run-of-river dam, a technique that harnesses the natural flow of the river to drive the turbines.
There is a need for a targeted action to collect soils, rainfall and river flow data in the Pakistani catchments especially in the upper Indus above Tarbella and the Kabul River.
However the on-ground rainfall and river flow data networks are inadequate to successfully customize these technologies for Pakistan.
Thus, they will not change in any way the flow of the river.
It will also reduce flood risk in the area by increasing the volume of water that can safely flow through the river.
These plants need the fresh water flow from the river for cooling, processing, and to ship their product out to the Gulf.
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The commission has long run the St Lawrence hydro-power project at Cornwall, Ontario, and regulated the river flow without dispute or political interference.
The flow of the river, made constant by careful management to please consumers, did not suit the handsome river red gum trees along its banks, which thrive on drought and flood.
The writer took eight photos in all: the bum on his knees with his arms stretched out to the sides, and in other poses, such as pretending to sleep on a bench, thoughtfully watching the river flow by, or smiling and waving his hand.
If it spills into sewage plants, waste could flow untreated into the river.
In the past month, several hundred people had to be evacuated, prompting the construction of a channel to divert the flow from a major river.
In February, prosecutors accused the director of Mayak, Russia's main waste processing plant in the Ural Mountains, of allowing tons of radioactive nuclear waste to flow into a nearby river.
Over a century, engineers altered the flow of the Mississippi River, the swamps shrank and then got cut into Swiss cheese to make room for shipping lanes and pipelines and levees.
The flow of the mighty river has been diverted, billions of dollars have already been spent, and the work of moving more than 1m residents from the area is well advanced.
The whole flow of the Pecos river is theirs to use if they need it for their allotted acreage of water rights the whole flow except the bit guaranteed to Texas, that is.
Although India insists on bilateralism even while sharing of river-flow data for flood forecasting, officials from Bangladesh have told the BBC that the idea has not worked well because they receive the figure of the flow only from areas nearby the Indo-Bangladesh border areas.
For example, significant cooling and strong dynamical effects after the Laki event and other high-latitude eruptions are believed to have caused decreased flow of the Nile River in Egypt and weakened African and Asian monsoons based on climate model simulations, with potentially very significant impacts on food and water supplies.
Opponents of the Tokushima dam argue that dams of similar design elsewhere have destroyed river habitats, blocking the flow of water and leading to an accumulation of sludge on the river bed.
The prospect of secession by southern Sudan worries Egypt: it fears that a new political actor on the Nile might disturb the river's flow, Egypt's lifeline.
"The dam's construction benefits riparian countries, showcases fair and equitable use of the river's flow and does not cause any harm on any country, " Alemayehu Tegenu said.
White buses drop workers off at the export companies and cargo trucks line up to cross the bridges that straddle the concrete canal built to direct the flow of the Rio Grande River.
Dave McKnight, from the Environment Agency, said the River Thames continued to flow extremely fast.
The solution: Reverse the river so it would flow southwest to St.
But he said that would cause extra water to flow through Newhaven, increasing erosion to river defences.
Louis sought a court injunction, but this engineering feat made the Chicago the first river in the world to flow away from its mouth.
The flow from the source of the Pearl River, which empties into the South China Sea near Hong Kong and Macau, has been reduced to a trickle from a waterfall.
In May and June, heavy rains in the basin of the Yangtze river had created an enormous flow of fresh water, and this jet had sluiced the jellyfish towards Japan.
These dams, such as Xayaburi, will have no significant storage capacity and are known as run-of-river projects, where the flow through the powerhouse and spillway is virtually the same as the inflow to the reservoir.
Large parts of the City of Ann Arbor and parts of Scio Township have now been placed in a Groundwater Use Prohibition Zone (PZ) by the court, as the plume is now being allowed to flow through the city to vent into the Huron River.
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