dam data News
-
Royal Eijkelkamp present at Tailingdam Seminar in Brasil
Royal Eijkelkamp was one of the participants of the International Seminar on Tailingdam Technologies & Management in Minas Gerais, Brasil. The objective of the seminar was to discuss new policies and to present new technologies to the mining companies to help to implement them. Minas Gerais has more than 315 tailing dams, 50% of the total in Brazil. Besides well organised and monitored dams, ...
-
New designs for making old dams safer
A group of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) hydraulic engineers are helping to rehabilitate aging small dams across the country. Efforts are underway to upgrade existing auxiliary spillways or build new spillways for these dams, especially in Oklahoma. These upgraded or new spillways meet current dam safety standards and will increase the useful lives of the dams. The U.S. Department of ...
-
Annual Charles River report card shows water quality remaining good and improving
2012 marks the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act (CWA). Signed in 1972, the Clean Water Act set as one of its basic goals the restoration of rivers so that they were safe for fishing and swimming. Since 1995, EPA has measured the cleanup of the Charles River against those fundamental objectives of the Clean Water Act. The Annual Charles River Earth Day cleanup and EPA Report card event is ...
-
The Arab world: `Scarce data in a water-scarce region`
Data-sharing is part of the answer to problems arising from the Arab region’s most serious challenge, water. Water is potentially a matter of conflict and death as well as life in the Arab region, which is why it is such a sensitive subject — on the ground and in negotiations for United Nations conferences such as the Eye on Earth Summit in Abu Dhabi (12-16 December) and next ...
By SciDev.Net
Need help finding the right suppliers? Try XPRT Sourcing. Let the XPRTs do the work for you