'dams' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to a barrier constructed to hold back water and keep a river at a steady level. For example: "Engineers built a dam to protect the town from flooding."
Kaberuka argues that Inga III and dams being developed by Ethiopia can benefit the whole continent.
The industry regulator, Ofgem, found SSE had given incorrect information to the Grid about the length of time it needed to remove some of its hydroelectric dams from the system.
"It is hypocritical for western governments, who have funded their industrialisation using fossil fuels … to say to African countries: 'You cannot develop dams, you cannot develop coal, just rely on these very expensive renewables,'" he says.
We shall see… In March, three tribal leaders arrived in London to make their case against several huge hydroelectric dams being built in Brazil and Peru, which they argue will force their people from the land and threaten their way of life.
A series of new hydroelectric dams (more than 100 in total) are planned across Brazil and Peru, including the most controversial of all – the Belo Monte Project on the Xingu river, which is intended to be the world's third largest hydroelectric plant.
Another of Goldsmith's targets was big dams, which he saw as spreading poverty by flooding the lands of the poor for the benefit of wealthy industrialists and exporters.
Although the World Bank has been criticised in the past for financing the building of dams in developing countries, Kim said Africa had to explore hydroelectric power as an alternative to fossil fuels.
But it's what the explorer, writer and Amazon expert John Hemming calls "the bloody mess of the dams" that is causing the latest round of acrimony, fear and dispute.
Meanwhile, in cities such as Halle and Meissen the water was still rising steadily and residents watched helplessly as the it trickled through their makeshift dams.
"I am trying to get some contacts in Italy that might be able to get together with some of us, over an issue concerning the building of bridges and dams," he wrote.
Electricity, almost uniquely among commodities, cannot be stored efficiently (except as water in hydro-electric dams).
