"This is definitely the biggest hydro-engineering challenge in Latin America, maybe the world".
Hydro-engineering projects account for a major share of this human torrent.
Government leaders and big businesses are pushing ahead with ever bigger hydro-engineering projects that upset conservationists and indigenous groups.
Getting the required billions of litres up to this megalopolis – 2,400m above sea level – is one of the world's great feats of hydro-engineering.
Mr. Evans's project, "Moving Water," refers to a hydro-engineering problem Olmsted faced in his first Boston commission in 1875 that is still unresolved.
Wang's concrete home – built this year to resettle migrants from China's latest and greatest hydro-engineering project – wobbles when she walks.
Although hydro-engineering techniques have advanced considerably since the 48-mile (77 km) Panama canal was completed in 1914, the logistical challenge will be enormous.
Today, tourists still appreciate the remnants of its architecture and sophisticated hydro-engineering systems, composed of canals, moats and large reservoirs known as barays.
The water had risen a foot above the 500-year flood plain, Mr. Weinberg said, so the museum searched the world's leading hydro-engineering firms — including those in watery places like the Netherlands and Venice — for help.
It may sound obvious that droughts are caused by a lack of rain, but I am saying this so you don't blame the Three Gorges Dam, the South-North Water Diversion Project or any other massive hydro-engineering project.
It is suggested that this work provides a new insight for evaluating the impact of hydro-engineering projects on vegetation communities and wetland vegetation restoration.
