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Many of the world's major industrial nations have developed their hydropower potential to the fullest, though a few like the United States still have some untapped resources.
Poor countries which store hardly any water and use only 5% of their hydropower potential see no reason why they should listen to lectures about the evils of dams from rich ones which use them far more extensively.Soon they might not have to.
"In my view the question is not so much about whether Cambodia and other Mekong countries should not seek to increase their hydropower activism, but how they can cooperate more effectively with each other in order to manage their common water resources more equitably," said Ms. Patrikainen, at IHS Global said.
India incorporated domestic fluvial systems by integrating its main rivers to improve hydrological control and to increase their hydropower production to 54,000 MW in 2012 [78, 79].
This rate is low when compared to countries like Norway, Japan, Sweden, France and China with developed proportion of their hydropower potentials standing at about 45, 61, 69, 68 and 30%% in 2009, respectively, and installed capacities of 27.53, 27.23, 16.21, 25.34 and 196.79 GW in that order [19, 20, 21].
Nepal has not been able to upscale their hydropower installations to meet its citizen's demands because the demand for energy grows roughly 10% every year.
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