| Titre : |
Superdams: the peril of progress |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Sterling, C. |
| Mention d'édition : |
Atlantic Monthly Company |
| Editeur : |
Atlantic Monthly Company |
| Année de publication : |
1972 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
CI-03606 |
| Note générale : |
Bulding a dam than simply making sure it will stand up store water, and generate power. When a big dam is built, the water backing up behind it may flood several thousand square miles of land. Every living not born to the water is drowned by it : tress, flowers, crops, animals, insects. Everything changes: the water's chemistry the habitat of river fish, the kinds of numbers of aquatic plants, the lifz expectancy of desease-carrying invects and creatures who customarily dine on them, the weather, the wind, the flights of bird the pressures on the eart's crust, the tendency, therfore, to earthquakes and landslides, the levels and mouvements of underground streams and springs. |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Mots-clés : |
Barrage Construction Hydrologie Pédologie Environnement Maladie hydrique Etude d'impact |
| Index. décimale : |
551.48 Hydrologie : |
| Résumé : |
Bulding a dam than simply making sure it will stand up store water, and generate power. When a big dam is built, the water backing up behind it may flood several thousand square miles of land. Every living not born to the water is drowned by it : tress, flowers, crops, animals, insects. Everything changes: the water's chemistry the habitat of river fish, the kinds of numbers of aquatic plants, the lifz expectancy of desease-carrying invects and creatures who customarily dine on them, the weather, the wind, the flights of bird the pressures on the eart's crust, the tendency, therfore, to earthquakes and landslides, the levels and mouvements of underground streams and springs. |
| Note de contenu : |
Bulding a dam than simply making sure it will stand up store water, and generate power. When a big dam is built, the water backing up behind it may flood several thousand square miles of land. Every living not born to the water is drowned by it : tress, flowers, crops, animals, insects. Everything changes: the water's chemistry the habitat of river fish, the kinds of numbers of aquatic plants, the lifz expectancy of desease-carrying invects and creatures who customarily dine on them, the weather, the wind, the flights of bird the pressures on the eart's crust, the tendency, therfore, to earthquakes and landslides, the levels and mouvements of underground streams and springs. |
Superdams: the peril of progress [texte imprimé] / Sterling, C. . - Atlantic Monthly Company . - Atlantic Monthly Company, 1972. ISSN : CI-03606 Bulding a dam than simply making sure it will stand up store water, and generate power. When a big dam is built, the water backing up behind it may flood several thousand square miles of land. Every living not born to the water is drowned by it : tress, flowers, crops, animals, insects. Everything changes: the water's chemistry the habitat of river fish, the kinds of numbers of aquatic plants, the lifz expectancy of desease-carrying invects and creatures who customarily dine on them, the weather, the wind, the flights of bird the pressures on the eart's crust, the tendency, therfore, to earthquakes and landslides, the levels and mouvements of underground streams and springs. Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Mots-clés : |
Barrage Construction Hydrologie Pédologie Environnement Maladie hydrique Etude d'impact |
| Index. décimale : |
551.48 Hydrologie : |
| Résumé : |
Bulding a dam than simply making sure it will stand up store water, and generate power. When a big dam is built, the water backing up behind it may flood several thousand square miles of land. Every living not born to the water is drowned by it : tress, flowers, crops, animals, insects. Everything changes: the water's chemistry the habitat of river fish, the kinds of numbers of aquatic plants, the lifz expectancy of desease-carrying invects and creatures who customarily dine on them, the weather, the wind, the flights of bird the pressures on the eart's crust, the tendency, therfore, to earthquakes and landslides, the levels and mouvements of underground streams and springs. |
| Note de contenu : |
Bulding a dam than simply making sure it will stand up store water, and generate power. When a big dam is built, the water backing up behind it may flood several thousand square miles of land. Every living not born to the water is drowned by it : tress, flowers, crops, animals, insects. Everything changes: the water's chemistry the habitat of river fish, the kinds of numbers of aquatic plants, the lifz expectancy of desease-carrying invects and creatures who customarily dine on them, the weather, the wind, the flights of bird the pressures on the eart's crust, the tendency, therfore, to earthquakes and landslides, the levels and mouvements of underground streams and springs. |
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