U.S. and Canada update the Columbia River Treaty after 60 years, giving more hydropower to America: The U.S. would pay Canada for reservoir capacity to hold back water during flood seasons, protecting downstream communities, at a rate that would begin at $37.6 million per year and increase with inflation. The U.S. and Canada said Thursday they have agreed to update a six-decade-old treaty that governs the use of one of North America’s largest rivers, the Columbia, with provisions that officials said would provide for effective flood control, irrigation, and hydropower generation and sharing between the countries. http://dlvr.it/T9WBwW
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U.S. and Canada update the Columbia River Treaty after 60 years, giving more hydropower to America
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Geological investigation for dams Dams are one of the most important development infrastructures in any country and are used for many different purposes including irrigation, water supply, flood control, electricity production (19% of worldwide supply) and storage of mine wastes. Economic growth is directly related to the construction of dams, with more than 45,000 worldwide considered as large dams (i.e. over 15 m high or with a reservoir capacity of over 3 million m3). The shortage of water resources is a major global problem: more than 1,000 million people do not have access to the minimum daily water requirement (50 litres per person/day) while in industrialized countries the consumption is 4–14 times this amount. https://lnkd.in/d5m7uR8m
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Geological investigation for dams Dams are one of the most important development infrastructures in any country and are used for many different purposes including irrigation, water supply, flood control, electricity production (19% of worldwide supply) and storage of mine wastes. Economic growth is directly related to the construction of dams, with more than 45,000 worldwide considered as large dams (i.e. over 15 m high or with a reservoir capacity of over 3 million m3). The shortage of water resources is a major global problem: more than 1,000 million people do not have access to the minimum daily water requirement (50 litres per person/day) while in industrialized countries the consumption is 4–14 times this amount. https://lnkd.in/d5m7uR8m
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General Scientific Coordinator Regional Governments at Garraf Karst Park Nature Reserve (Barcelona. Catalonia. Spain)
Geological investigation for dams Dams are one of the most important development infrastructures in any country and are used for many different purposes including irrigation, water supply, flood control, electricity production (19% of worldwide supply) and storage of mine wastes. Economic growth is directly related to the construction of dams, with more than 45,000 worldwide considered as large dams (i.e. over 15 m high or with a reservoir capacity of over 3 million m3). The shortage of water resources is a major global problem: more than 1,000 million people do not have access to the minimum daily water requirement (50 litres per person/day) while in industrialized countries the consumption is 4–14 times this amount. https://lnkd.in/d5m7uR8m
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Geological investigation for dams Dams are one of the most important development infrastructures in any country and are used for many different purposes including irrigation, water supply, flood control, electricity production (19% of worldwide supply) and storage of mine wastes. Economic growth is directly related to the construction of dams, with more than 45,000 worldwide considered as large dams (i.e. over 15 m high or with a reservoir capacity of over 3 million m3). The shortage of water resources is a major global problem: more than 1,000 million people do not have access to the minimum daily water requirement (50 litres per person/day) while in industrialized countries the consumption is 4–14 times this amount. https://lnkd.in/d5m7uR8m
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