Download or read book The Regional Impact of a Multifunctional Dam in the River Plate Basin written by Jarl Roberto Hellemalm Ashfield and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Large Dams written by Thayer Scudder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the first comparative long-term analysis of the negative impacts of large dams on riverine communities and on free-flowing rivers in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Following the Foreword by Professor Asit K. Biswas, the first section covers the 1956–1973 period, when the author believed that large dams provided an exceptional opportunity for integrated river basin development. In turn, the second section (1976–1997) reflects the author’s increasing concerns about the magnitude of the socio-economic and environmental costs of large dams, while the third (1998–2018) discusses why large dams are in fact not cost-effective in the long term.
Download or read book The Regional Impacts of Climate Change written by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group II. and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Download or read book Upper Rio Grande Basin Water Operations Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Water Resources Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dammed Societies Effects of Dams on Native Americans in the Columbia River Basin written by Elliott McGill and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since dam construction began in the New Deal Era, it has represented a dominance of humankind over nature. These massive structures have harnessed, collected, and distributed electricity from the rivers they hold back and allow humans to reap the benefits of that cycle. One of the areas where dams are particularly apparent is in the Columbia River Basin in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. While the dams in this region certainly have allowed the area to develop and build by using the electricity collected by these dams, they have also had several negative effects on the tribal people in the region who once fished the mighty Columbia during its populous salmon runs and relied on the salmon for nutritional, economic, and cultural reasons. This project seeks to examine the costs of human advancement when it comes to dams, and will do so by studying three dams located in the Columbia River Basin: The Bonneville Dam, The Dalles Dam, and The Grand Coulee Dam. These dams will be studied using Black’s Theory of Law as a framework to examine the manner in which law was applied to each case. The research finds that although the dams certainly provide a useful resource to the people of the region, it has had negative effects on the Native American people who depended on the river.
Download or read book Pearl River Basin Multipurpose Reservoir Project Neshoba County written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impacts of Large Dams A Global Assessment written by Cecilia Tortajada and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-02-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most controversial issues of the water sector in recent years has been the impacts of large dams. Proponents have claimed that such structures are essential to meet the increasing water demands of the world and that their overall societal benefits far outweight the costs. In contrast, the opponents claim that social and environmental costs of large dams far exceed their benefits, and that the era of construction of large dams is over. A major reason as to why there is no consensus on the overall benefits of large dams is because objective, authoritative and comprehensive evaluations of their impacts, especially ten or more years after their construction, are conspicuous by their absence. This book debates impartially, comprehensively and objectively, the positive and negative impacts of large dams based on facts, figures and authoritative analyses. These in-depth case studies are expected to promote a healthy and balanced debate on the needs, impacts and relevance of large dams, with case studies from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and Latin America.
Download or read book Understanding the Impacts of Reservoirs in Developing Regions Using Satellite Remote Sensing written by Matthew Bonnema and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dams provide immense societal benefits in the form of hydropower generation, flood control, and water supply. However, they also cause significant negative environmental impacts by altering the timing and magnitude of natural streamflow, limiting the transport of sediment, nutrients, and biota upstream and downstream, and altering aspects of water quality such as sediment concentration and water temperature. Dam development in developing regions has been increasing in the last 30 years and will continue to intensify in the coming decades. This is leading to rapid hydrologic transformations of developing river basins, with potentially dire consequences for local populations dependent on the natural river systems for food and livelihood. In-situ hydrologic observations in such regions are limiting, making satellite remote sensing the only viable option for studying the impacts of this rapid dam development. This dissertation aims to advance our ability to study the impacts of reservoirs in data limited regions. First, a method for estimating reservoir outflow using purely remote sensing observations was developed and tested on reservoirs in the United States and Bangladesh. This method was then applied to ungauged reservoirs in the Mekong River Basin and their impact the river system was evaluated in terms of flow alteration and residence time. It was found that smaller reservoirs on upper tributaries exerted a higher degree of flow alteration and residence time on the rivers they impound than larger, more downstream reservoirs. However, the reservoirs on larger rivers exert their impacts on significantly larger volumes of streamflow, so their contribution to the overall flow alteration and residence time of the river system was found to be more significant. Looking towards upcoming satellite missions, the applicability and usefulness of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission for monitoring reservoir outflow and river discharge was tested using by generating synthetic observations based on the expected performance of the SWOT instrument. It was found that SWOT is expected to observe reservoir storage change with higher accuracy than methods from existing sensors in most cases. However, some reservoirs were unable to be accurately observed by simulated SWOT observations, indicating a cooperative multi-sensor approach may be useful. The performance of SWOT observations of river discharge was found to be satisfactory given there are currently no satellite sensors capable of estimating discharge. However, the dramatic differences between wet season and dry season discharge in monsoonal rivers proved difficult and some adjustments to the discharge estimation methods may be needed. Finally, impacts on river temperature downstream of major dam development in the 3S Basin, the largest tributary to the Mekong River, were observed using satellite remote sensing. Dam construction in the basin coincided with significant temperature decreases downstream, providing clear evidence of hydropower induced river cooling. The findings of this dissertation and the remote sensing methods employed here represent valuable steps towards understanding the hydrologic impacts of dams and predicting the impacts of further dam development in developing basins around the world.
Download or read book Selected Water Resources Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multipurpose Survey of the Kafue River Basin Zambia written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food of Salmonid Fishes of the Western North Pacific Ocean written by George Herbert Allen and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rivers of Europe written by Klement Tockner and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2009-01-31 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the bestselling book, Rivers of North America, this new guide stands as the only primary source of complete and comparative baseline data on the biological and hydrological characteristics of more than 180 of the highest profile rivers in Europe. With numerous full-color photographs and maps, Rivers of Europe includes conservation information on current patterns of river use and the extent to which human society has exploited and impacted them. Rivers of Europe provides the information ecologists and conservation managers need to better assess their management and meet the EU legislative good governance targets. Coverage on more than 180 European rivers Summarizes biological, ecological and biodiversity characteristics Provides conservation managers with information to resolve conflicts between recreational use of rivers, their use as a water supply, and the need to conserve natural habitats Data on river hydrology (maximum , minimum and average flow rates), seasonal variation in water flow Numerous full-color photographs Information on the underlying geology and its affect on river behaviour
Download or read book Rathbun Dam and Lake O M written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sustainability of Engineered Rivers In Arid Lands written by Jurgen Schmandt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume examines how nine arid or semi-arid river basins with thriving irrigated agriculture are doing now and how they may change between now and mid-century. The rivers studied are the Colorado, Euphrates-Tigris, Jucar, Limarí, Murray-Darling, Nile, Rio Grande, São Francisco, and Yellow. Engineered dams and distribution networks brought large benefits to farmers and cities, but now the water systems face multiple challenges, above all climate change, reservoir siltation, and decreased water flows. Unchecked, they will see reduced food production and endanger the economic livelihood of basin populations. The authors suggest how to respond to these challenges without loss of food production, drinking water, or environmental health. The analysis of the political, hydrological, and environmental conditions within each basin gives policymakers, engineers, and researchers interested in the water/sustainability nexus a better understanding of engineered rivers in arid lands.
Download or read book American River Watershed Investigation written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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