Qiantang River

Reading week #7: Down go the dams The article “Down go the dams” by Jane C.Marks aim to provide an informative view on the current pending issue on Dams. The article starts out my mentioning the important nature of dams in our society. For example, Jane C.Marks states that today about 800,000 dams operate worldwide as well as the fact that most were built in the past century, primarily after World War II. Furthermore, the author lays down informative facts about dams such as the fact that dams control

summer. The Wild River is the only tributary to have its highest discharge for the period of record to take place in the 2010 water year; the remaining tributaries had their highest discharge for the period of record take place in other water years: 2004 water year for the Nezinscot River and 2011 water year for the Little Androscoggin River and Ellis River. All four tributaries had their lowest discharge for the period of record to take place in the 2002 water year. The Wild River had an average

and thrown away yearly! They also can damage an area of land where the land can divide accessibility for water flowing into bigger bodies of water, otherwise known as watersheds. The watershed that flows through Greeley, CO is the Cache la Poudre River Watershed (CPRW). Watersheds provide us drinking water, water for agriculture, such as farming, and they even help with outdoor activities like canoeing and fishing. Watersheds are even a habitat for most animals and help our plants. Watersheds get

1. In January 2011, the Queensland town of Toowoomba experienced flash flooding leading to the death of several people and large damage. The flood waters surged through the city centre as an “inland tsunami”. Describe the cause and developments of the flash flooding event and critically review Toowoomba’s urban hydraulic structures at the time of the flood event. Use a maximum of 400 words for your answer (excluding Figures) (3 marks) Toowoomba is a city nested in the Darling Downs region of Queensland

Basements are an essential part of homes in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They get turned into recreational rooms for the grandchildren, small apartments for graduate students, and even storage spaces. So when one of them floods, it is a very discouraging and expensive mess that no one looks forward to. Because of this, it helps to know a few things about basement flooding that can help prevent some of the damage from occurring. The Correlation Between the Seasons and Flooding Basements can flood no matter

The Tully valley is south of Syracuse, New York on the upper section of the Onondaga creek watershed. It is on Route 20, with the head of the valleys near Tully, New York (Kappel 2014). This valley was created by the movement of glaciers, so it was carved out during the same period of time that the Finger Lakes were created. However, due to the elevation of the valley the water within the valley did not stay after the glaciers left. When the valley was filled with water, it contained salt water

On May 19 and 20, 1990, terribly significant rains fell within the river Basin, particularly over the lower finish of Lake Hamilton and far of Lake Catherine. within the twelve-hour amount from 6:00 p.m. May 19, 1990 to 6:00 a.m. May 20, 1990, there was downfall of 10 inches at Carpenter Dam, seven inches at Remmel Dam, and twelve inches in near Hot Springs, with most of the rain falling between 8:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m. The pool elevation on Lake Hamilton was 399.16 feet higher than water level at

to give a vivid picture of his extraordinary experience of canoeing down the Mississippi river. In his story he uses personification, simile, metaphor, and hyperbole to help readers give a visual of his experience. Some personification he uses is in lines 53, witch says “But the voice of the river came out and spoke to me teasingly but with a chill of seriousness down my spine.” that quote means that the river was moving him the way he did not want to go. The other figurative language was in lines

There is a country water partnership in Congo. The Congolese national water partnership works towards cleating stakeholder awareness of iwrm. The ground for the for the national iwrm plan for Congo. In 1998 the republic of the Congo became part of what some people in Africa's Frist World War in a conflict between seven African nations. After the war water became an increasing sparse resource due to the collapse of the dmc's. The national flag of the republic of the Congo consists of a yellow

Rivers In Herodotus’s Inquiries: The Positive and Negative Tendencies of Man In his Inquiries, Herodotus utilizes the interactions of his characters with other mortals and with their environments to describe the nature of humans. In these instances, characters express qualities about themselves that can easily be overlooked. Such interactions of humans are often with rivers, which appear frequently throughout the anecdotes. Within his stories concerning rivers, Herodotus outlines the polarity present