"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully, " he said of dam-generated electrical power.
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For riders on the Carretera Austral, this could mean years of major roadworks and heavy dam-building machinery on the route.
But one element of the current development drive is bound to leave its mark on the Mekong: dam-building.
Academics and NGO representatives who oppose the dam-building on social or environmental grounds do not want their names published.
He said he was "intrigued" by a 2012 study that proposed three alternatives for placing dam-like structures in the Chicago waterways.
According to American Rivers, the National Marine Fisheries service continues to down play the importance of dam removal by underestimating dam-related salmon mortality.
It may also fear a dam-bursting effect if the SEC finds nasties in the Longtop accounts that prompt it to demand other companies' audit papers.
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So there is plenty of scope for an African dam-building boom.
Questions have been raised as to why water levels in the Wivenhoe dam - west of Brisbane - were not reduced in preparation for the flooding.
People from all around the world would come to America to see the Golden Gate Bridge and the Hoover Dam -- (applause) -- and Grand Central Station and the interstate highways.
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Instead, he threw in his lot with the anti-dam lobby and was duly re-elected.
Ahmed Qadhaf al-Dam and Said Rashwan, two leading figures in the regime, have already visited Egypt and attempted to recruit tribes - with Libyan connections - to attack the Gaddafi-free East from Egypt's western desert.
Mr Zeidan thanked the Egyptian authorities for their "judicial co-operation" over Mr Gaddaf al-Dam.
Egypt's prosecutor general has ordered Mr Gaddaf al-Dam's detention for 30 days while charges against him are investigated.
They may even have secured enough new anti-dam assembly members after the April elections to force a referendum.
According to the International Rivers Network, an anti-dam group, some 100 large dams are proposed for the Mekong basin.
Mr Gaddaf al-Dam played down the arrest, saying he was going voluntarily to Cairo's prosecutor general with his lawyers "to file a complaint".
The anti-dam alliance also includes kayakers worried about dropping water levels in their favourite rivers, and some people in Durango afraid their water will get dearer.
An interior ministry source in Cairo told the BBC that Mr Gaddaf al-Dam handed himself in to the security forces after 10 vehicles surrounded his house in the Zamalek neighbourhood of the Egyptian capital.
After arriving in Egypt in 2011, Mr Gaddaf al-Dam initially claimed he had defected, but took a more neutral stance weeks later, fuelling suspicion in Libya that he was still working for Col Gaddafi - an accusation he has denied in the past.
And we understood that if we're investing in things like a Hoover Dam or DARPA -- the research and development arm of our military that ended up producing things like the Internet or GPS -- that that, in fact, would be good for everybody.
Relations between the countries have deteriorated over a hydro-electric dam that Tajikistan is building.
It was a massive undertaking, requiring a 7-story dam below the water level of the adjacent Hudson River.
But a low-head dam that delivered irrigation water also blocked fish movement.
It comprises a few rows of identical houses, built to house the workers of a hydro-electrical dam and a brief line of shops.
And in Michigan, Midland County Sheriff Scott Stephenson said a "major" rupture emerged in the Kawkawlin Dam, a 12-foot breach sending water through the structure.
Network engineering is not a glamorous profession, and the physical structures of the greatest network ever built lack the grandeur of a hydroelectric dam or a continent-spanning railway.
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.
To be sure, the dam has helped Egyptian farmers irrigate year-round and has prevented periodic flooding, but it has also deprived the Nile delta of nutrient-rich silt, which instead just piles up behind the dam.
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