Just about a mile down the river, construction is moving forward on Blackfriars Station, the world's largest solar bridge.
"The dam is being built in the middle of the river so you can't carry out construction work while the river flowed, " Mihret Debebe, chief executive officer of the state-run Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation, told the Reuters news agency.
The first stage of the development will include extensive work to waterways, including the construction of river walls and flood defence walls.
The effects of these demented policies have been exacerbated in recent years by Turkey's diversion of Syria's main water source, the Euphrates River, through the construction of dams upstream, and by two years of unrelenting drought.
The active section of the detector, under construction in Ash River, Minn.
At one construction on a river in Charsadda, built by the British colonial government, more than twice the volume of water of the previous record flood, in 1929, gushed in, snapping off its gates.
As he approaches the East River, he marvels at a construction crane hoisting giant girders into the sky.
Its main solution is to build more large dams (390 are under construction), and river diversions, including a long-mooted extravaganza of 30 linkages which would unite most of India's river basins.
In the suit filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, the environmental groups asked a judge to issue an injunction to stop construction of North Sky River.
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Construction of levees along the river and lake over the centuries has led to a rise in the water levels, according to the National Weather Service.
Fearing the environmental damage the paper plants might cause, Argentines on the river have been demanding a halt to their construction.
Under the Ghandi style leadership of an extraordinary woman the people who live on the banks of the Narmada river in India have managed to halt the construction of a dam that threatens to destroy their way of life.
In the past week the president (and former general), Thein Sein, has announced that construction of the Myitsone dam across the River Irrawaddy would cease.
The problems at Airbus are analogous to assigning two crews to build a bridge where each starts construction on the opposite banks of a river and, as the bridge comes together at mid-span, they discover that the two sides do not match.
It is being built in conjunction with investment firm River's Rock, and Pinewood said it expected construction to begin immediately.
During the two-year construction, a temporary bridge will carry traffic over the river estuary.
The construction of the Gezhouba dam in 1981 on the Yangtze river also created a barrier to the migrating fish which further affected fish stocks.
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.
Minc said he wants to stop construction of homes in high-risk areas, such as river banks or steep mountain slopes -- a practice that he said was encouraged by previous governments.
Voters in Tokushima, on the island of Shikoku, are fighting construction-ministry bureaucrats over a new dam for the nearby Yoshino 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.
But their chief concern at the moment is the security of a Chinese construction firm which is building a hydro-power project on the Indus river in the Dubair area of Kohistan.
At a meeting chaired by Russian President Putin, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and high-level railroad officials in early April, the construction of a railroad stretching from the banks of Russia's Lena River to the Bering Strait was discussed at length, adding further evidence that Moscow sees the BST project as not only feasible, but inevitable.
Construction work on a 2.2 mile (3.5km) stretch of the River Aire is expected to begin later this year.
For thousands of years, the sitting figure of Ramses II watched over the Nil, till the construction of the Aswan dam threatened to drown the ancient temple under the waters of the river.
The Tate trustees were forced into building elsewhere because the construction of the Clore Gallery alongside the old Tate left no room for further development north of the river.
Having built all the roads, bridges, tunnels, harbours, airports, schools, hospitals and city halls that the country is ever likely to need, so desperate have the construction companies become to find new places to pour their concrete that they have taken to paving over the river beds and beaches.
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