river project Articles
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Project - Red River College Innovation Center, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Installation of the BiPV facade is well under way on the new Innovation Center designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects and number TEN architecture. The large format custom BiPV facade panels are shingled to provide visual depth and allows the cladding to smoothly follow the rounded corner of the building as well as allow the PVD coated glass to reflect the sunlight in an ever changing sequence of ...
By SolarLab
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The Hungary-Slovakia Danube River dispute: implications for sustainable development and equitable utilization of natural resources in international law
The Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Project dispute is one of several controversies that have surrounded the use of Europe's second longest river - the Danube. It is a dispute that rocked Hungary and Czechoslovakia for many years before reaching the International Court of Justice. At the very heart of the matter are international environmental law issues, in particular, sustainable development and equitable ...
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A longitudinal analysis on the perspectives of major world newspapers on the Three Gorges Dam project during 1982–2015
Media communications are least studied in river basin development projects. This paper aims to develop a longitudinal study on how a water resources development megaproject was reported by the world newspapers during its whole life cycle. The development of the Three Gorges Dam project in China (1982–2015) was taken as an example. Newspaper perspectives on eight evaluation themes: time, cost, ...
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Measuring the economic benefits of protecting the Tong River in Korea: a Contingent Valuation study
Whether or not to construct the Tong River Multi-purpose Dam, a large project that will adversely impact local people and the environment, has become quite a controversial issue in Korea. This paper applies a Contingent Valuation (CV) method to obtain a preliminary evaluation of the benefits of protecting the river. A CV survey of Korean households was conducted to estimate their willingness to ...
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San Diego formation groundwater development and storage potential.
Groundwater as a resource has been little utilized in San Diego County, California, compared to neighboring counties to the north. The San Diego formation in southwestern San Diego County is one resource that has seen limited utilization historically, but in recent years has been viewed with increasing interest by local agencies for expanded groundwater development. Potential uses include ...
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Adaptation turning points on inland waterway transport in the Rhine River
It is expected that climate change will affect important natural inland waterways in Europe, among others, the Rhine River. Inland waterway transport is one of the main economic activities developed in the Rhine, and the effects of climate change on this activity are of great concern for skippers, the industry and policy-makers. This paper aims to identify whether longer and more frequent dry ...
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The best way to restore environments in the face of climate change
Florida’s Kissimmee River once flowed freely. Fish, birds and other wildlife dwelled in the wetlands it fed. But in the 1960s, spurred by public outrage over flooding, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers straightened the winding waterway and turned it into a drainage canal. Flip forward a few decades and the river is returning — at least in part. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has ...
By Ensia
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Nakoma Brook flood & hydraulic analysis & engineering study Sloatsburg, New York
Performed Hydrologic Studies and Hydraulic Engineering Investigations and Designs for the Nakoma Brook Watershed located in Western Rockland and Southeastern Orange Counties, encompassing over 8 square miles. The study area focus was in the Village of Sloatsburg, NY at the intersection of Route 17 and Eagle Valley Road. Flood Control analyses were conducted using USACOE's HEC-1 and HEC-2 computer ...
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3. The Regge Basin
In this chapter we will introduce the river, its basin and the river renaturalization project. Our case, the Regge River, is the most important river in the western part of the Twente region. Numerous smaller rivers and creeks flow into this river. In the periods 1848-1879, 1894-1913 and 1925-1935 the Regge suffered from piecemeal canalization efforts. This ...
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chooses ArmorMax® for Napa River Flood Protection Project in Napa, California case study
PROJECT SUMMARY In January 2006 Napa River dikes were overtopped, resulting in land-side erosional damage. The critical nature of the structure required the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to implement risk reduction techniques, such as levee armoring. The Corps selected ARMORMAX® to protect the City of Napa with a sustainable soft armoring solution that is vital to flood protection efforts. ...
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Lessons for climate change adaptation from better management of rivers
Autonomous adaptation in the water sector is assessed to derive lessons for more successful climate change adaptation from six empirical, consistently designed river management case studies based on projects of WWF. They show that when adaptation measures are considered in the context of common problems in water management, many practical ways of building resilience to climate change through ...
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5. Upper Regge Project Implementation
After the completion of the Regge Vision white paper, the Waterboard began shortly thereafter to prepare the Regge renaturalization projects. Several streams in addition to the main river body contribute to the Regge in the upper Regge area. Due to a shipping canal that interrupts the river, some streams that once belonged to the catchment area now flow directly into ...
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Water management in a city of southwest China before the 17th century
Kunming City is the capital of Yunnan Province, China. From the 12th century, it has developed from a remote rural town to become a large city. Successful water management was one of the key dynamic factors in the city's development. As a result of the location of Kunming City, in its early age it was in a narrow area between the north bank of Dian Chi lake and the mountains, therefore ...
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Assessing the impact of projected climate change on drought vulnerability in Scotland
Although Scotland is relatively water resource rich in a UK and European context, water resource scarcity can occur during exceptional dry periods such as those experienced in North West Scotland during July 2012. Precipitation and flow anomaly indices have been recently developed and introduced operationally by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, in order to assess the severity of dry ...
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6. Middle Regge Project Implementation
Not only has the Regge been severely canalized in the past, a very large part of its catchment area in the eastern part of the Twente region has been disconnected from the system. A large part of this area, with relatively clean creeks, will now be reconnected by 2013 by the creation of new river that will flow into the Regge river a bit north of Enter in the Municipality ...
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Panxi River Remediation - Yueliangwan Park Blackwater Treatment Project in Chongqing City Case Study
In recent years, Chongqing has become a national environmental protection exemplified city. The Panxi River, the city’s principle river had been seriously polluted by domestic sewage wastewater discharge. FMBR technology was applied to remediate the Yueliangwan section of the Panxi River. JDL constructed a 0.8 MGD WWTP occupying only 3000 Sq. ft. at the corner of the Yueliangwan Park. The ...
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Is Watershed Restoration Working?
Researchers call for standardizing methodology among smaller projects It’s well understood that damage to watersheds leads to freshwater access problems for the populations that depend upon them. That’s why we now spend much more money on watershed upgrades and mitigation of damage done to soil, water, and rivers than we did a decade or two ago. But after years of large-scale ...
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The Sri Lanka environmental flow calculator: a science-based tool to support sustainable national water management
As Sri Lankan water resources are being increasingly exploited, particularly for hydropower and irrigation, ecologists, water practitioners and policymakers alike are realizing the importance of protecting these resources and setting environmental sustainability thresholds. Environmental flows (EF) – the concept that helps define such thresholds – has now become an integral part of ...
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Interdependence in water resource development in the Ganges: an economic analysis
It is often argued that the true benefits of water resource development in international river basins are undermined by a lack of consideration of interdependence in water resource planning. Yet it has not been adequately recognized in the water resources planning literature that overestimation of interdependence may also contribute to lack of progress in cooperation in many systems. This paper ...
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Project - Arizona Diamondbacks Install AirDrain Under Synthetic Turf At Spring Training Facility
The Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies Salt River Fields at Talking Stick installed AirDrain under the Synthetic Turf batting cages. Designed by Lloyd Engineering the AirDrain provides unmatched drainage and consistant GMAX for the safety of the ...
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