Dams

A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of water or underground streams. Reservoirs created by dams not only suppress floods but also provide water for activities such as irrigation, human consumption, industrial use, aquaculture, and navigability. Hydropower is often used in conjunction with dams to generate electricity. A dam can also be used to collect water or for storage of water which can be evenly distributed between locations. Dams generally serve the primary purpose of retaining water, while other structures such as floodgates or levees (also known as dikes) are used to manage or prevent water …

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Government of Saskatchewan · 16 March 2111 English

This year's budget is aimed at keeping Saskatchewan on the path of steady growth. Steady growth is the big picture, a full view of what's happening in Saskatchewan.

the water supply and quality, but also managing dams and water channels to reduce flood and drought damage aimed at rehabilitating and maintaining existing dams and continued work on the M1 Canal and the Boundary


Fraser Institute · 14 March 2024 English

total generation) to 95.1 terawatt hours (15.3%). This would require the construction of ten new mega dams, comparable to BC’s Site C, on Canadian rivers or thirteen new average-sized gas plants. Based on

y requires the equivalent of 10 new mega hydro dams or 13 large natural gas plants nationwide within requiring the equivalent of 10 new mega hydro dams or 13 large natural gas plants to meet the increased capabilities, and adding the equivalent of 10 new mega dams or 13 new gas plants in such a short timeline isn’t fully electric, it will require 10 new mega hydro dams (capable of producing 1,100 megawatts) nationwide


Fraser Institute · 14 March 2024 English

total generation) to 95.1 terawatt hours (15.3%). This would require the construction of ten new mega dams, comparable to BC’s Site C, on Canadian rivers or thirteen new average-sized gas plants. Based on

necessary to construct additional hydroelectric dams, invest in nuclear power plants, or build biomass


ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability Canada · 29 February 2024 English

We acknowledge the lands which constitute the present-day City of Mississauga as being part of the Treaty and Traditional Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, Co-operators The …

stabilize a drinking water reservoir dam and spillway. Dams that were designed to be stable for historic climate


BCCAT: BC Council on Admissions and Transfer · 26 February 2024 English

Concerns noted from all programs with the lack of communication and continuity with programs and the BCDHA. [...] The articulation group/Chair needs to be told of the dates and times …

are using alginate and vinyl sheets. ff. Dental dams for whitening (liquid?) i. Discussion on the DH


Action Canada · 19 February 2024 English

IMPROVING THE INTERCOMMUNITY MOBILITY OF FIRST NATION PEOPLES IN CANADA: A Response to Call for Justice 4.8 The report is dedicated to the countless families and kin of Missing and …

significant reliance on hydroelectricity. Hydroelectric dams are disproportionately located in close proximity many Canadians do not feel the effects of these dams, the FNIM communities who live close to them do just one example of many effects that hydroelectric dams have on FNIM peoples.23 Furthermore, hydroelectric


Clean Energy Canada · 16 February 2024

of updated and public information concerning the Clean Energy Canada / Modernizing energy sector planning and oversight for a net-zero world 3 Regulatory frameworks lack the flexibility The modernization of …

achieve the objectives and deliver on such as hydro dams and transmission lines through the actions assigned


Wilson Center Canada · 7 February 2024 English

The devastating predict the possible climate impacts to come, the floods in Saudi Arabia1 and Libya2, the wildfires3 severity, frequency6 and scale of these events raging across food-trapped Syria’s agricultural …

grassroots, bottom-up activism verity of weather caused dams in Derna, Libya that is necessary to build effective leading to catastrophic flooding. Why? resilience.”27 Dams in this region which were built between Localizing N., & Paddison, L. (2023, September 15). Aging dams and missed warnings: A lethal mix of factors caused


Wilson Center Canada · 7 February 2024 English

and the local average in its arid southeastern Up until the 1970s, the main challenge in the parts, where the Euphrates and Tigris originate, basin was flooding, and the relative …

Environmental Change Program and Security Program Dams built in the Tigris and Euphrates river basin Keban total usage, agriculture is the largest ing large dams in the 1960s, claims over water water consumer in they have co-sover- struction of Keban and Karakaya dams, when eignty over the rivers’ governance, and claim Accounting for both rivers as releases from the Turkish dams at least three a single basin would enhance the poten- For example, water releases from Turkish dams tially significant impacts for downstream coun-


Wilson Center Canada · 7 February 2024

This analysis will Displacement and individual experiences are explore number of dimensions to the impact key factors contributing to vulnerability to en- of climate change, and in particular, the issue …

neighbors to the north and east have built more than 30 dams, hydroelectric plants and irrigation projects on


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