The film chronicles the frantic efforts by the Indian Foundation's Department for Unknown Peoples to find the missing group of the Ava-Canoeiro tribe before their ancestral lands are drowned by a massive hydro-electric dam.
How will its officials be responsible "parents" – as designated by the court – if their superiors continue to make decisions that are detrimental to the rivers, such as massive hydro-project construction?
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.
Its 50-mile-long reservoir might also be able to hold back enough water to prevent the kind of devastating flooding seen in 2010.Even though the country has massive hydro-electric potential, the last big dam to be built in Pakistan, at Tarbela, was completed in the early 1970s, also with American assistance.
Brazil has said a request to halt work on its massive hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest is unjustified despite environmental concerns.
To power this industrial site, they have built one massive hydro-electric dam, flooding 700 sq km (270 sq miles) of land and cutting down 230 sq km (90 sq miles) of virgin rainforest.
I enjoy finding weird and random applications of engineering, and the places my studies have taken me--from a hippie commune in Panama, to the bustling streets of Dublin, to the inside of a massive Hydro-Electric plant right here in North Carolina.
The government plans to build eight major hydropower plants on the Vjosa, and another 20 or so on its tributaries as part of a massive Balkans hydro project.
Construction of the massive Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme, begun in 1949 and completed in 1974, was undertaken in conjunction with the federal and Victorian governments.
There has been a massive investment in hydro-power, including the $25bn Three Gorges Dam project.
Private companies and other utilities from other parts of Canada and the United States were sent in to help Hydro-Québec undertake this massive restoration task, but these efforts were complicated by the widespread damage of the power grid.
