Hoover Dam

Water Project. The California Aqueduct is operated and maintained by the Department of Water Resources (DWR). The California Aqueduct includes one pumped-storage hydroelectric plant (Gianelli Power Plant). Gianelli is located at the base of San Luis Dam, which forms San Luis Reservoir, the largest off stream reservoir in the United States. The aqueduct begins at the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta at the Banks Pumping Plant, which pumps

It was a warm summer day in Helena Montana. The sky was overcast and even though the sun was barely visible, it was still warm. You could smell the smell of freshly mowed lawns in the crisp air. But the thing that happened next was a terrible thing that happened in the blink of an eye. The ground shook and people started to panic. The thing that happened was bound to happen and it hadn't happened 70,000 years. The Yellowstone national park supervolcano erupted and everyone near Yellowstone died instantly

April 30, 1971, Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa proposed plans to create the idea of Hydro-Quebec. This would be a state-run electric company, taking a hydro-electric strategy that would dam many Northern Quebec rivers and in turn open the opportunity for thousands of jobs. It would also open the opportunity for Quebec to get a new trade base for Quebec to surplus power for export and would attract investment in exposed industries. In 1973, the James Bay Project was initiated, which indicated the

Many homeowners feel that their house and property will always be protected as long as the annual insurance premiums are paid on time and standard coverage is in place. However, there is a big misconception when it comes to repairs and replacement costs for a dwelling that has suffered water damage due to flooding. Homeowners with properties located within a floodplain typically must purchase additional flood insurance in order to be protected from a severe loss that could leave a household in financial

This photograph was taken on a field trip to Elora Gorge. Elora Gorge is an important landscape in Ontario and is also a prime example of significant change to a landscape by physical processes. Largely, it is the result of erosion by water at the end of the last glacial period. The most recent glacier over North America, the Laurentide Ice Sheet, resided almost all over Canada. Eventually, the sheet melted, allowing water possessing a strong stream discharge to be released in numerous directions

This documentary is about a group of engineering experts who attempted to recreate the famous Rainbow Bridge depicted in the Quingming Scroll, created in the time of the Song Dynasty. A multinational team, compromised of Professor Tang, multiple engineering experts and native Chinese workers come together to decipher how the Rainbow Bridge was actually made, because the bridge itself and any blueprints for it have long since been lost to time. The entirety of the documentary focuses on completing

a much larger margin of positive ways it affected the community than negative ways. The Yuma Project had a negative impact on the steamer companies that used the Colorado river to take shipments upriver to other places. They could not get past dams that were built not long after business started booming. When the Yuma Project had just started to be developed, there were a lot of kinks to work out. The canals were extremely shoddy and flooded

the Los Angeles aqueduct, a 200-mile system to transfer water from Owens Valley to the San Fernando Valley. In March 1928, the St. Francis Dam failed and Mulholland’s career was in shambles. In the article Villain or Visionary, written by Eve Bachrach, Mullholland’s career and achievements are put in question. Opinions of Mulholland diverge once the dam fails. Bachrach’s article asks the question, “Was he motivated by greed, played by the rich men who hoped to be made richer by a secure water

of Yellowstone National Park and flows through Idaho and Oregon before finally emptying into the Columbia River in Washington. Fifteen dams have been built on the 1040 mile Snake River and its tributaries, mainly for purposes of providing irrigation water and hydroelectric power, ranging in size from small diversion dams to major high dams. While the many dams have transformed the region's economy, they have also had an adverse environmental effect on wildlife, most notably on wild salmon migrations

John Strong Newberry first introduced the idea of Lake Overflow in 1861 after discovering that the Bidahochi Formation, an old lake basin, at times was dry and at other times held freshwater. This led to Newberry to propose the first hypothesis. Essentially Newberry came to the conclusion that a lake ponded behind a structure and eventually over spilled on a low spot of that structure incising the Grand Canyon (Intro Part 1). Although Newberry didn’t provide much evidence to support his claim, a