Already the provider of more loans to developing countries than the World Bank, according to research by the Financial Times, China finances numerous agricultural, hydropower, housing, railway, roadworks and mining projects in the region, particularly in Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Vietnam and the Philippines.
On the other hand, increased interest to create numerous new small hydropower plants throughout Greece has been expressed during the last 5 years.
Hydropower came into the energy matrix as a consequence of a sequence of technological innovations in the late 19th C. Rapidly expanding electricity demand turned hydropower in numerous countries into an "energy bridge".
In addition, this study strengthened the argument for indicator-based approaches to evaluating socio-hydrologic systems, particularly when evaluating hydropower development, which impacts numerous economic and hydrologic systems.
The region has a considerable hydropower potential and feeds numerous perennial rivers which depend upon the sustainable existence of glaciers (GoI 2010, DST 2012).
The mahseer (Tor spp). of India are a group of potamodromous cyprinids currently facing numerous challenges in their native ranges including overfishing, pollution, and hydropower development.
More than a hundred hydropower dams have already been built in the Amazon basin and numerous proposals for further dam constructions are under consideration.
The Lenca people organized numerous protests against dam projects proposed on their rivers, and blocked the construction site of a hydropower plant for more than a year.
This narrowed public acceptance of hydropower as an energy source and reduced significantly its role in the energy matrix in numerous states.
Hydropower generated at the dam wall provides 2.1 gigawatts—half of Egypt's needs in 1970 giving numerous villages access to electricity for the first time.
