Thus, they will not change in any way the flow of the river.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
It will also reduce flood risk in the area by increasing the volume of water that can safely flow through the river.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
River systems build and branch because of the balance of flow through them and lateral pressure on them.
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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.
Run-of-the-river dams like Baglihar consume nothing, since water must flow to run turbines.
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.
And in Guyana and Suriname, coastal farmers irrigating with water from river estuaries have had to stop: because of the rivers' weak flow, it was sea-water.
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