Sentence examples for vast dam from inspiring English sources
Up and down the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers in southeastern Turkey, villages inhabited since the beginning of civilization are being flooded into watery oblivion by a vast dam system.
For the middle leg of the project, the origin of the diversion is Danjiangkou, where bathers plunge into the Han River beneath a vast dam and a giant slogan on the concrete embankment: "People and Water in Harmony, North and South Both Benefit".
Salmon habitat has long been in decline because of logging, mining and development along salmon bearing waters; hydropower, in the form of vast dams, has commonly blocked the fish's passage to spawning grounds upriver; and aggressive harvest, or fishing, decimated salmon runs.
Early on it was involved in construction of the vast Capanda dam in Angola.
Brazil is Paraguay's biggest trading partner, and its purchase of electricity from Itaipu, the vast hydroelectric dam the two countries share, represents Paraguay's second-biggest export.
This could be by far the world's biggest hydropower station, generating almost 40,000MW, 20 times what the vast Hoover dam in the United States produces.
What surprised me is how quickly we got to excellent.' We drive past a vast hydro dam, before dropping down into Earnscleugh Valley.
For shallow dams constituting the vast majority of dams removed to date (Hart and Poff 2002), the exposed surfaces will be at elevations close to the surface of the new river and a large fraction of the exposed area would have been riparian or wetland before inundation.
Water seeps through the Lake Isabella dams, as it does through most earthen dams, which account for a vast majority of dams in the United States.
Equally important to the DRC's development, according to the prime minister, is the proposed construction of the vast Inga 3 dam on the Congo river.
So far, though, it has not aroused the bitter controversy that the equally vast plan to dam the Yangtze at the Three Gorges did before its approval in 1992.
