government and Sir Bade Clifford acquired all the land in and around the village of Caura in order to build a dam to supply the entire north of Trinidad with water. The plan was to dam the Caura River and construct a three hundred acre lake in the village area. In 1946‚ all the buildings and people were cleared and workers began to lay foundations of the dam. No further work has been carried out on the dam and all that can be seen are remnants from this project. After this‚ there was an attempt to make Caura
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Connie‚ Diane‚ and lone‚ and to this day hurricanes‚ and floods are prevalent in North Carolina‚ and Wayne County. Whenever there is a considerable amount of water there is a considerable amount of dams‚ and that can be a part of the mitigation phase in the hazard mitigation plan. There are approximately 50 dams in or affecting the Neuse River basin region with a hazard classification from low‚ intermediate‚ to
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Analysis at Work Renewable and Non-renewable energy sources &Fuels: Renewable energy comes from natural sources that are constantly and sustainably replenished. The most common renewable energy sources are biomass‚ hydroelectric‚ geothermal‚ wind power and solar power. Sunlight is the source of most renewable energy power; the sun can be used to produce solar energy which is electricity for heating‚ cooling‚ lighting homes and transportation. [1] Non-renewable energy is energy that comes from
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the agent. For the second method‚ water is be softened by literally exchanging resin ions‚ (Na+ or H+) with cations. (Ca2+ and Mg2+). What is your hypothesis? As a group‚ we chose to the measure the hardness of 5 different water samples. 1) Whipple dam 2) Spring creek 3) Slab Cabin Run 4) Lake at Golf Course 5) Tap Water. We expected the whipple damn to be fairly soft because this water comes from rain and rain water is naturally soft. However‚ the water at the bottom of the creek we expected to
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THE NILE RIVER The Nile River is the longest in the world it is approximately 4160 miles long‚ It flows from high mountains in Africa.The Nile was a main means of travel. There are two branches‚ Rosetta Branch to the west‚ and Damietta to the east. Lake Victoria‚ and Lake Tana are two major sources. Without the water source ancient egyptians would have died out‚ because they relied on agriculture for wealth‚ and power. The Nile River was called Ar or Aur (means black) due to the annual flood left
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Conference Week 8 Question: 1.What led to the traumatic events in Tiananmen Square in 1989? Why did China’s leadership react to the students as they did? How would you characterize political reform in China under Deng Xiaoping and his successors? The reasons that led to the event in Tiananmen Square in 1989 are because of the challenge of the reforms and the invasion of freedom and democracy. The event started from the death of famous Chinese governor Hu‚ Yaobang. In year 1989‚ Fang Lizhi‚
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his memory. He is held in high regard as a pre-eminent engineer of India. He was the chief designer of the flood protection system for the city of Hyderabad‚ as well as the chief engineer responsible for the construction of the Krishna Raja Sagara dam in Mysore. He is also revered a lot in the state of Karnataka. Sir MV was born in 1861 in a Telugu Brahmin family to Mokshagundam Srinivasa Shastry and Venkatalakshmamma in Muddenahalli village‚ 40 miles from Bangalore‚ India. Their family migrated
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of life for many species of plants and animals‚ including humans. The major problem that humans are facing is that the population of wild salmon is dangerously low as compared to historic numbers due to over-fishing and human degradation (including dams‚ chemical pollution and land use impacts.). Pacific Salmon are now extinct in forty percent of the rivers they once thrived in (Four Fish). Zoologist George Suckley stated in 1854‚ that the Pacific coast salmon were “one of the striking wonders of
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The Tennessee Valley Authority Introduction The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was the first large regional planning agency created by the United States Government in May of 1933. The TVA was one of the most innovative and significant ideas of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to help tackle the economic‚ social‚ and political problems in the Tennessee Valley‚ a region with no economic growth and was heavily impacted before and after the Great Depression. The TVA is a federally owned
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floods are the floods that are caused by some significant and unexpected events‚ for instance dam breakages. Heavy rainfalls are one of the major causes of floods. The level of water in rivers or lakes rises due to heavy rainfalls. When the level of water rises above the rive banks or dams‚ the water starts overflowing‚ which causes floods. The water overflows to the areas adjoining to the rivers‚ lakes or dams‚ causing floods or deluge. The flood water causes havoc and great destruction in the areas
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