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Artificial high water affects ecology of running water
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by
zopemaster
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published
Dec 02, 2004
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:04 AM
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filed under:
rivers and streams - impairments,
rivers and streams,
ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles,
ecology,
hydropower,
renewable energy
A new WWF study shows that the artificial high-water (surges) and low-water (sinks) caused daily by hydraulic power plants are having disastrous repercussions on the ecosystem of running water.
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Slovenia: plans for a series of hydraulic power plants
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by
zopemaster
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published
May 04, 2006
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:05 AM
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filed under:
rivers and streams - impairments,
rivers and streams
Slovenia has granted concessions for the planning of a series of power plants along the Mura, Drava and Sava rivers. The International Committee for the Protection of the Mura River Unsere Mur - Nasa Mura, founded in spring 2006, is opposing this threat to precious river landscapes of the Alps and pre-Alps.
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Obstacles and facilitations for the movement of fishes
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by
zopemaster
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published
May 05, 2010
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:15 AM
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filed under:
rivers and streams - impairments,
rivers and streams
An inventory of all the artificial barriers that impede the flow of rivers has found out that French rivers are interrupted by 60,000 dams, weirs, locks, mills etc. The inventory has been recently published as a online map where the works are shown divided by department, municipality or watercourse. All these works obstruct the movement of migratory aquatic organisms and the transport of sediments, thereby affecting ecosystems.
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Power plant expansion on the Lech at the expense of nature conservation?
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by
zopemaster
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published
Nov 01, 2010
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:16 AM
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filed under:
hydropower,
renewable energy,
hydro-engineering - mountain torrent control,
rivers and streams,
rivers and streams - impairments,
rivers and streams
The Lech river in Bavaria/D is already being used on a massive scale for electricity generation, and only the stretch at Augsburg/D remains undeveloped. But even this section of the river could very soon become the site of a hydroelectric power plant. The expansion plans are not an isolated case; rather, they reflect a trend throughout the Alps, and one that is gathering momentum.
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The Alpine Rhine fête
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by
CIPRA International
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published
Jul 26, 2017
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:24 AM
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filed under:
rivers and streams - impairments,
annual report 2016,
Rhine,
ecology
CIPRA Liechtenstein. Taming Europe’s biggest torrent began some two hundred years ago. Today, the Alpine Rhine is a canal, its course lined for the most part by intensively used farmland and residual pockets of wetland forest.
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