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To Protect Rural Communities from Floods, Climate-Resilient Dams are Needed
2020-06-08 18:53:04| National Farmers Union
By Jeanne Janson, NFU Intern Americas infrastructure has a climate change problem. The Edenville Dam in central Michigan collapsed in May after heavy rainnearly five inches in 48 hoursfalling on already saturated land pushed the Tittabawasse River to record heights. The torrent poured into the surrounding area, destroying roads, homes, businesses, dams and farmland in […]
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The spectacular failures and successes of massive dams
2020-03-11 01:13:21| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
It can be fiendishly complex to measure the social and environmental effects of large-scale dams.
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Court Approves Plan To Help Salmon By Spilling More Water Over Columbia River Dams
2018-01-17 21:40:18| PortlandOnline
Cassandra Profita in OPB, January 9, 2018
US hydropower: the potential for converting non-powered dams
2016-09-20 01:00:00| Power Technology
Could the US be doing more to tap hydroelectric energy with its existing dam infrastructure? The US Department of Energy estimated in 2012 that fitting the country's non-powered dams (NPDs) with generation technology could produce 12GW of new clean e
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Climate change threatens to double malaria risk from African dams, say researchers
2016-09-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The number of Africans at risk of malaria who live near dams will nearly double to 25 million by 2080 as areas where the disease is not currently present will become transmission zones due to climate change, researchers said on Monday. Without prevention measures, the number of malaria cases associated with dams could triple to nearly 3 million a year over the same period, they said in a study published in Malaria Journal. "While dams clearly bring many benefits ... the role of climate change on...
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