" Women like naturalist Ella Higginson fired back, charging that men were so obsessed with profit that they wanted to "tear down our forests, rip open our mountain sides, blow out our stumps with giant powder, (and) dam up our water ways.
If it is too high, the water spills over even when the dam is up.
When its technocrats decide to dam a river, build a road or move a village, the dam goes up, the road goes down and the village disappears.
In 1987 it threatened to cut the flow off, and in 1990 it did so, for a month, to allow the lake behind its giant Ataturk Dam to fill up.
As the plans for the High Dam were drawn up, worldwide attention focused on the many valuable and irreplaceable ancient monuments that would be destroyed by the waters of Lake Nasser.
Some recalled a warning given by one of China's most famous critics, Huang Wanli, before his death ten years ago that the dam would silt up the reservoir basin and sooner or later have to be blown up.
In past years, the general water level of the dam system had gone up a little bit, but this year it was really scarce.
It seemed to explode all round the ship with an overpowering concussion and a rush of great waters, as if an immense dam had been blown up to windward.
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The dam calls for diversion of up to 100 kilometers of the Xingu, an Amazon River tributary.
In two weeks' time, murky brown water will have backed up behind the dam to a height of 135 metres (440 feet) above sea-level.
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To be sure, the dam has helped Egyptian farmers irrigate year-round and has prevented periodic flooding, but it has also deprived the Nile delta of nutrient-rich silt, which instead just piles up behind the dam.
As a result, a mighty dam of money is continuing to build up within the sovereign debt and banking system.
The Marines at Combat Outpost Pennsylvania, in the contentious Helmand Province, are charged with rooting out insurgents along the highway that shadows the Helmand River up to the vital Kajaki Dam.
The extra water will be released gradually over the next three days with the aim of helping the fish leap up a fish ladder at a dam near Selkirk.
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That is what happens when a computer gets too hot, or is bombarded with certain kinds of radiation: the electrons pick up enough energy to breach the dam that has been carefully constructed to contain them.
The infamous snail-darter, a three-inch fish that held up for years the construction of a federal dam in Tennessee, has happily survived the dam's arrival.
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In 1999, the ASF led the effort to tear down the Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in Maine, which freed up 17 miles of river that had been submerged.
Two years ago the regional government teamed up with local people to raise money and build the dam themselves.
The dam seems to be breaking on the nearly eight-months-long cover-up concerning the deadly jihadist attack on Americans and their facilities in Benghazi, Libya.
On his release he began to campaign for a big dam on the Iato river, which roared down in the winter rains and dried up in the nine arid months.
And we understood that if we're investing in things like a Hoover Dam or DARPA -- the research and development arm of our military that ended up producing things like the Internet or GPS -- that that, in fact, would be good for everybody.
The MTA took extensive measures before the storm to limit the amount of water flooding into tunnels, including by boarding up ventilation grates in low-lying stations, piling sandbags at station entrances, inflating a rubber dam in the Long Island Rail Road's West Side yards in Manhattan and hastily erecting a floodwall across the mouth of the No. 3 train tunnel near East 148th Street in Harlem.
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