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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Researchers from the University of Washington, Arizona State University and others institutions have proposed a solution that allows dam operators to ...
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N. LeRoy Poff, professor of biology at Colorado State University, studies the ecological impact to rivers from human-caused changes, such as dam building, and ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The U.S. Department of Energy's Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) announced $2.5 million in available funding for innovative upstream and downstream ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Pamir Energy, the first ever public-private partnership in Tajikistan, was honoured at the 2017 Ashden Awards for restoring Soviet-era hydro plants in order ...
Government Public Private Partnerships in Water Governance Governance & Policy Hydropower Infrastructure Dams Public Private Partnerships
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
When the Mactaquac Dam opened in New Brunswick, Canada, in 1968, it was expected to have a service life of 100 years, but a chemical reaction occurring within ...
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The Utah Water Research Laboratory at Utah State University is building a model of the Oroville dam to replicate the failure and figure out how it should be ...
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A provider of underwater robotics out of University of Sydney, which claims it could have prevented California's recent Oroville dam crisis, has raised $1 ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
In the past, dams represented the battle of good vs. evil at the time (or one of them anyway) was between nature lovers and greedy industrialists who were ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
California water officials say they have awarded a contract to repair Oroville Dam's two damaged spillways to a Nebraska construction company. The Department ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Ethiopia is constructing one of the biggest dams in the world over the Nile, a major north-flowing river. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam The Nile's ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Switzerland’s 604 hydroelectric plants aren’t just powerhouses for clean energy. Some dams are also dramatic destinations. But their source of fuel is ...
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What we know so far about problems at the tallest US dam. It's been more than a week since engineers at the nation's tallest dam noticed damage to its ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
As the nation's 84,000 dams continue to age, a growing number of people downstream are at risk, experts say. Oroville Lake's is seen from the air Feb. 13, ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Nearly 190,000 people in Northern California were ordered to evacuate after a spillway serving the country's tallest dam developed a hole that threatened to ...
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Chile's Alto Maipo dam project raises a slew of environmental and human rights concerns, but it is also a hallmark of the country's privatization. Activists ...
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by Ted Warren, RCC Specialist at THPC Hydro expansion project
The Ralco dam in Chile is not just a dam, says RCC consultant Ted Warren. It is a true accomplishment of hydropower development in extreme environmental, ...
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by Ted Warren, RCC Specialist at THPC Hydro expansion project
Ted Warren provides an update on the development of three of the world’s largest hydroelectric dams. A number of major new hydroelectric and dam projects ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Hydropower provides 85 per cent of the world’s renewable electricity, but comes with a hefty environmental price tag. Here’s what some are doing to ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Situated on the Yangtze River in China, the Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydroelectric dam in the world. A Xylem solution at the dam provides data that ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Researchers are using a 3D scanner to predict the geographical conditions that cause dams to collapse. In a scaled-down model reservoir, the team used an ...
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