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China has officially launched construction of what experts call the world’s largest hydropower project, a colossal dam on the ...
How to replace the Lower Snake River dams, and their services, is one of the most important policy questions facing the Pacific Northwest.
Hydropower systems have long served as a cornerstone of renewable energy, combining traditional engineering with modern control methodologies to ensure efficiency and stability in power generation.
The new projects are likely to have enhanced storage capacities with low-level sluice gates that were not allowed under the ...
Flood risk management, hydropower generation and salmon runs will suffer if the United States and Canada don’t renew a key provision of the treaty that guides how they manage the Columbia River ...
The Corps is responsible for the maintenance and physical operations of the dams, including managing water flows for multiple purposes, like producing hydropower, flood control, fish and wildlife ...
California relies on its rivers and streams for a plethora of services—water supply, flood control, biodiversity conservation, and hydropower generation, to name a few. As a result ...
On the upper reaches of the Jinsha River in southwest China, a high altitude hydropower station is under construction. Notably, the significant difficulty of temperature control and crack ...
Amid hammering rainfall, viscous mud flows and multiple state emergency declarations, Los Angeles County’s Byzantine flood control system has thus far absorbed near-record precipitation — a ...
KALUMPANG, Indonesia — In January, as representatives of a hydropower company explained their plan to dam the river near his home, Kasman wondered if he was staring at annihilation. Kasman is ...
Ottumwa Water Works says it's “financially, environmentally, and structurally unfeasible” to maintain upkeep on the Hydro-Electric dam.
Water has broken through the flood gates at a flooded river power dam in Norway on Wednesday, footage from Norwegian website VG TV showed.