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	List of reservoirs and dams - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The List of reservoirs and dams is a link page for any reservoir or dam in the world.
		Reservoirs and dams in the Commonwealth of Independent States
		Malpasset Dam, collapsed in 1959, killing over 400 people in and around Fréjus.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/List_of_reservoirs_and_dams (153 words)

	DAMS, FISH AND FISHERIES- Opportunities, challenges and conflict resolution
		Reservoir yields in China are reported to range from 127 to 152 kg/ha/year, but these high values tend to be the result of intensive stocking programmes.
		Subsequently, river ecosystems containing dams must contend with secondary environmental pressures such as increases in pollution as well as increased exploitation and extraction of their resources (primarily water, fish, and substrates), that are independent from and in addition to the direct influences of dams and reservoirs on the physical and biological dimensions of the system.
		If a dam were constructed at a distance of 400 km from the river's source, and resulted in loss of a 25-km section of the river at that point, the reservoir would need to compensate for 57 925 kg/year.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/004/Y2785E/y2785e02.htm (5130 words)

	Planet Ark : Poland Approves Final CO2 Emissions Plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Poland's plan is one of the four largest in the 25-nation bloc and covers more than 1,100 installations.
		The rest should be formalities and we want the firms to be able to start trading as soon as possible," she added, while declining to say exactly when trading would start.
		Poland already meets its emissions targets under the Kyoto treaty due to a slump in heavy industrial production and its national plan effectively projects future pollution levels to allow companies to grow in coming years.
	www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/34246/story.htm (452 words)

	Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		As a result, Poland's natural environment deteriorated progressively, and at the end of the I980s, it was one of the most polluted countries in Europe.
		Below are outlined a number of the main indicators of the level of environmental pollution in Poland in 1988-1990, the period of its political and economic transformation.
		Atmospheric pollution in Poland is among the heaviest in Europe.
	www.nato.int /ccms/pilot/subg0/meeting/defense95/d27.html (7998 words)

	Flood
		As most of Poland consists of the Wisła riverbed and a significant other part consists of the river Oder, one may say that this data can be indicative for the development of vegetation over the last years.
		The reasons for the latest floods in Poland are poor forest management (especially after the Forest Law in 1992), the greenhouse effect, the regulation of so many rivers and mountain streams, poor condition of existing hydrotechnical structures, and bad management of spatial planning and flood prevention.
		In the last few years in Poland the network of observation points of the institute of meterology and water management was eliminated which lead to decreased information about hydro-meterology thus increasing the chances for false decision-making forecasts in the future.
	www.zb.eco.pl /gb/24/flood.htm (4202 words)

	LYNX - IUCN publication: EECONET - Poland
		Poland’s unique geological structures are the result of its position abreast the contact points of Europe’s tectonic plates: Precambrian east European, mid-European, Palaeozoic formations and the younger alpine systems (figure 3.1 + legend).
		Northeast Poland is characterized by numerous boreal and boreal-continental elements and (to a small extent) Pontic, Arctic and Mediterranean-Atlantic elements.
		The landscapes of Poland and their differences in biotope and plant cover were dealt with in the chapter discussing landscape zones (map 1 + legend).
	geoinfo.amu.edu.pl /wpk/eeconet/eeco_pl.html (17834 words)

	The Corner House - Dams Incorporated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Akosombo, completed in 1966, is one of the most notorious dams in terms of size (the biggest reservoir in the world), disease (more downstream river blindness), under-performance (20 hour per week fl-outs during the 1994 drought) and erosion (the coasts of neighbouring Togo and Benin being lost at the rate of 10m a year).
		Dam reservoirs were silting up faster than new ones were being built, said Dr Tom Jacobsen, from Nowegian engineering firm Groner/Statkraft Engineering, and the problem would not "literally reach the surface" for another century.
		The project was part of a scheme to upgrade and expand the dam, which has been plagued by problems since it was commissioned in 1964 [See sections on VA Tech and Kvaerner].
	www.thecornerhouse.org.uk /item.shtml?x=52008 (11694 words)

	Pumped-storage hydroelectricity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pumped storage hydroelectricity is a method of storing and producing electricity to supply high peak demands by moving water between reservoirs at different elevations.
		Some facilities use abandoned mines as the lower reservoir, but many use the height difference between two natural bodies of water or artificial reservoirs.
		The upper reservoir (Llyn Stwlan) and dam of the Ffestiniog Pumped Storage Scheme in north Wales.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity (1061 words)

	portland imc - 2004.06.24 - Klamath Tribes and Fishers Say Dams Must Go!
		dams also block organic and fragmented mineral nutrients from traveling down the river into the estuary, where the river meets the ocean.
		The purpose of the dam is to raise the water surface 25 feet and provide controlled gravity flow of water into the All-American and Gila Gravity Main Canals.
		To meet the irrigation diversion requirements at Imperial Dam, the flow of water in the Colorado River arriving at the dam is controlled by releases from Parker Dam, 150 miles upstream.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/06/291347.shtml (1001 words)

	Saving Iceland \|
		These dams are designated solely to generate energy for one massive ALCOA aluminium smelter to be built by war-profiteers Bechtel in the beautiful fjord of Reydarfjördur, and due to be operational in 2007.
		Furthermore, the dam is being built right in a seismically unstable area and would present a serious threat to the local population and environment.
		One of the main arguments for the dam is that hydropower is eco-friendly.
	www.savingiceland.org (3885 words)

	Water Resources
		Poland is, for the most part, a water poor nation, whose water supply is roughly three times less than the average European level.
		Poland, however, plans to construct two series of dams (cascades), one on the lower Vistula (Nieszawa Dam) and one on the Odra (Odra 2006).
		Poland and Russia share similarities in their anthropogenic effects on water but have substantially different water supplies.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~jfarrugi/gc3/book/water.htm (3080 words)

	Vistula River Basin - UNEP/DEWA~Europe > Publication > Freshwater in Europe
		Flowing eastward and then northward from the Carpathian Mountains of southern Poland to its delta near Gdansk on the Baltic Sea, the Vistula River forms a giant letter S. With its branches, including the Bug, Wieprz, San, Narew, Nida, Pilica, Brda, and Wierzyca rivers, the Vistula drains a basin of about 194 000 km2.
		The middle and lower sections of this river are considered to be one of Europe’s most exceptional areas of natural and landscape value, with meanders, ox-bows, steep banks and sand islands.
		In the early 1990s, municipal systems in Poland discharged about 900 000 million m3 of untreated sewage, while about I 400 000 m3 were treated mechanically and/or biologically with an average treatment efficiency of 64, 64, 23 and I7% for BOD.5, COD, N, and P respectively.
	www.grid.unep.ch /product/publication/freshwater_europe/vistula.php (473 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Caritas Internationalis - One million USD needed for Poland flood relief
		Thousands of homes and buildings were partially or completely destroyed, crops devastated, hundreds of roads and bridges wiped out, and dams, reservoirs, and sewage systems ruined.
		The extent of the damage is difficult to assess as many regions are still battling the floods and living under the threat of increased rains and broken dams.
		Caritas Poland is working in cooperation with local leaders to identify and respond to the needs of the country's most vulnerable people.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/4d1dcc29675817f6c1256aa1004419e8 (300 words)

	Dams and Development Project
		the benefits of large dams have largely gone to the already well-off while poorer sectors of society have borne the costs.
		As the WCD report notes: “Although the proportion of investment in dams directly financed by bilaterals and multilaterals was perhaps less than 15%, these institutions played a key strategic role globally in spreading the technology, lending legitimacy to emerging dam projects, training future engineers and government agencies, and leading financing arrangements.”
		All institutions which share in the responsibility for the unresolved negative impacts of dams should immediately initiate a process to establish and fund mechanisms to provide reparations to affected communities that have suffered social, cultural and economic harm as a result of dam projects.
	www.unep.org /dams/documents/default.asp?documentid=428 (1425 words)

	Planet Ark : Poland plans costly EU-linked waste schemes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		WARSAW - Poland plans to build 960 waste treatment plants and 480 municipal sewage systems under its long-term 40 billion euro ($43.2 billion) scheme to upgrade its environment to EU standards, a minister said last week.
		Poland is the biggest of the 10, mostly east European countries set to the join the EU in May, 2004.
		The EU has awarded Poland about 1.8 billion euros from the cohesion fund for environment protection in 2004-2006, to which the country will have to add about 800 million euros from its own budget.
	www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/19747/story.htm (430 words)

	International Day of Action Against Dams: 1998: Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The dam was built in the area where the Maya Achi indigenous people had lived for centuries, and 50,000 people have been forced to leave their land.
		One of the main ecological threats from dams is ´fragmentation’ of flora and fauna.
		On the Dnieper river six bed water reservoirs on the plain are built and among them there is the largest in the world man–made Kakhovskoye water reservoir, on the bank of which the largest in the world Zaporozhskaya nuclear power station is standing under five dams of Hydro – Electrical Plant.
	www.irn.org /dayofaction/1998/euro98.shtml (3682 words)

	MS State News: MSU fisheries experts complete United Nations assignment
		Donald C. Jackson and Leandro E.S. Miranda of the university's department of wildlife and fisheries recently completed reports for the World Commission on Dams, an agency of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization.
		Each prepared separate reports addressing influences of dams and reservoirs on river fisheries.
		"Dams have had a serious negative impact in some areas, but there also have been valuable fisheries created by dams as a result of the upstream reservoirs and the tailwater environments immediately below the dams," he said.
	www.msstate.edu /web/media/detail.php?id=1220 (444 words)

	Global Soil Erosion (Cont.)
		Many of the world's reservoirs are suffering significant reductions in storage capacity as a result of sedimentation, experts said yesterday at the International Conference on Freshwater in Bonn.
		If a dam were built at the mouth of every river draining into an ocean, and these dams had capacity/ inflow =0.11 year, these dams would collect 85% of sediment flowing into them.
		Dams on the Colorado River have reduced suspended sediment discharge to the ocean by at least 95% (Fig.
	home.alltel.net /bsundquist1/se4g.html (8612 words)

	3rd World Water Forum
		He highlighted the economic benefits that dams bring to Spain, including irrigation, hydropower and flood control, and said environmental impact assessments ensure the participation of all stakeholders.
		One participant noted that the correlation between dams and macroeconomic indicators is less apparent for developing countries.
		Discussing whether dam construction is necessary, Kawai Yosinari, NGO Association for Public Works Review, called for the preservation of livelihoods and ecosystems and stressed the need to evaluate alternative options using scientific criteria.
	www.iisd.ca /sd/3wwf/sdvol82num6.html (3603 words)

	Dams Safety Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Proceedings of the ANCOLD Conference on Dams, November 1996, Albury.
		Ground Movements from Coal Extraction in the vicinity of Dams and Storages in New South Wales, Australia.
		The Effects of Coal Extraction on the Overlying Groundwater Regime Adjacent to Cataract Reservoir, near Sydney, Australia. 1st Symposium on Hydrogeology of Coal Basins, Katowice, Poland - September 1987.
	www.damsafety.nsw.gov.au /GENERAL/articles.htm (1059 words)

	John McCrae - Grassroots - Water in Our World - Page 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		On the environmental side, high consumption places stress on rivers, lakes and groundwater aquifers and may require dams and flooding with serious ecological impacts.
		On the economic side, high levels of water use require ever-increasing and expensive investments in water system infrastructure needed to gather, deliver and dispose of water (dams, reservoirs, water treatment facilities, distribution networks and sewage treatment).
		Canadians obtain the majority of their water from surface sources such as lakes, rivers and reservoirs.
	schools.tdsb.on.ca /johnmccrae/3/page6.htm (308 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Environmentalists argue that a government plan to build eight dams (the first one went up in 1975 in Wloclawek) and dig a 300-kilometer canal to factories in the south would kill several species and raise the water table, making vast tracts of land unfarmable.
		The dams' supporters argue that the eight-dam cascade would lessen Poland's dependence on coal-based power plants, which are heavy polluters.
		The government is obliged by law to study the environmental impact before building a dam.
	www.changemakers.net /journal/00march/owad.cfm (2315 words)

	Swimming upstream
		The Sobradinho Reservoir in Brazil – one of the largest in the world – dropped to 5 per cent of its capacity in 2001.
		The need to achieve operative agreements is particularly urgent where the efficiency of downstream dams is at stake, or in areas prone to floods and mud-slides.
		Priority should be given to cases with an urgent economic profile related to disaster preparedness and/or dam and reservoir maintenance.
	www.ourplanet.com /imgversn/131/koch.html (1129 words)

	ICID Publications Catalogue : Irrigation and Drainage, The Indus Basin - History of Irrigation, Drainage and Flood ...
		Oldest dams attested archaeologically in Romania are the earth dams forming ponds on the minor hydrographical network on the south-west Transylvania plain.
		This publication presents not only the history of dams, historical dams, and the history of development of technologies for various types of dams, but it also highlights the skills and techniques deployed by the builders since olden times.
		Covering the history of dam building in several of present day countries, this book is a useful and authentic compilation of hydraulic engineering feats for storage of water through structures of various types and sizes.
	www.icid.org /book_detl.html (7684 words)

	The Army and Two World Wars
		At home, Army engineers by congressional mandate assumed a greater role in flood control, experimenting with ways to divert excess water into cutoffs and holding reservoirs.
		Dams constructed by Army engineers in the Missouri Valley not only helped prevent floods but also supplied hydroelectric power and recreation on reservoir lakes.
		The Army helped with flood relief in the Mississippi Valley in 1927 and the Ohio Valleyin 1937, as wellas in other domestic and foreign natural disasters.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/COS/21-27.htm (2062 words)

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		This scheme is the largest dam project in Iceland.
		It will be located near Vatnajoekull, Europe's largest glacier, and will dam and divert several glacial rivers.
		If constructed, it will consist of nine dams, three reservoirs, seven channels and 16 tunnels.Four activists got into the building, while others hung a banner and leafleted passers by.
	www.indymedia.org /pt/2004/12/816614.shtml (121 words)

	DoD News: DoD News Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld And Gen. Myers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		We are especially grateful for the direct military involvement of the forces of Great Britain and Australia and Poland, and so many other countries.
		And we are deeply grateful for the support of each of the now 45 nations that have publicly associated themselves with the coalition effort in Iraq.
		Q: General Myers, there had been some concern that the Iraqis might try to used controlled floods or even sabotage of its dams and reservoirs to impede and advance from the south.
	www.defenselink.mil /transcripts/2003/t03212003_t0321sd1.html (5494 words)

	Ecology, Environment and Physical Geography
		Ecological and economic harm caused by hydroelectric and other dams, reservoirs, and diversions.
		The trouble is, the evidence does not back up this litany.
		Ecological Risks: Perspectives from Poland and the United States - The purpose of this joint publication by the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) and the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (NAS) is to help our two countries learn more about the assessment and management of ecological risk.
	publish.uwo.ca /~mcdaniel/weblinks/ecol.html (8230 words)

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