Sentence examples for dams around from inspiring English sources

Only 25% of the 45,000 large dams around the world are used to produce electricity.

"The government said two dams around Chuanbei were destroyed, but they cannot estimate the loss exactly.

In fact, China is now involved in funding or building more than 200 dams around the world.

A large number of concrete bridges and dams around the world are affected by deterioration caused by the alkali aggregate reaction (AAR).

Attach the turbine to a generator, and power is generated -- hydroelectric power, the kind produced by the megawatt at dams around the world.

As older dams around the West come up for relicensing, their owners know that they'll have to spend heavily to fix problems, while new energy sources are getting cheaper.

The main water sources are small earthen dam (around 200 m from the village center, 67,000 m 3 capacity) near the village residential area and three wells.

Gouveia also saw men working on a leak at the foot of the dam around last July.

TEPCO has a plan to construct a 1500 foot frozen ice dam around the plant to keep radioactive water from contaminating the groundwater.

Though officials have yet to figure out exactly how to contain and clean up the spill, a new protective dam around the villages is ready, and we are told that many people will be able to return home soon.

But there is no trace of the bridge today as it lies under the Croton Reservoir, which was created when the Croton River was dammed around the turn of the 20th century.