Understanding Landscape Values and Baselines of Acceptability on the Mactaquac Dam and Headpond, New Brunswick [PDF]
Due to the growing interest in sustainable energy futures, jurisdictions at all scales are exploring options to reduce dependencies on dwindling fossil fuel reserves and moving forward with renewable energy generation.
Keilty, Kristina
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Shoreline erosion and related observations on the construction headpond at Site C, Fort St. John, BC
The Site C Clean Energy Project is a new dam and hydroelectric generating station that is currently being constructed by BC Hydro on the Peace River in northeastern British Columbia, near the city of Fort St. John. The Site C dam will be approximately 60
Collier-Pandya, Beatrice
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Development of black coating on filtering media and its effect on filter performance at Kpong headworks of Ghana [PDF]
Kpong water Treatment plant is one of the two major Water treatment plants supplying the Accra/ Tema Metropolitan areas. The filtering media at Kpong water works has been observed to develop a black coating after three to four years of commissioning ...
Yakubu, A, Buamah, R
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Periphyton Associated with Nymphaea lotus Linn. in Two Different Types of Freshwater Bodies in Southern Ghana [PDF]
The periphyton communities associated with Nymphaea lotus Linn. in two different freshwater bodies, the Kpong head-pond and Odaw stream, both in southern Ghana, were studied. Twenty-eight genera of algae, belonging to five phyla (Chlorophyta, Cryptophyta,
Annang, TY, Addo-Boadu, AM
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Infrastructure for Project Affected People In Ghana [PDF]
Ghana has undertaken many resettlement schemes as a result of development projects; for example Weija, Asuofuah, TemaManhean, Akosombo and Kpong resettlement schemes.
Miine, Licarion
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Re-operating large dams to benefit all -- experiences from Akosombo and Kpong dams in Ghana [PDF]
- Large dams affect upstream and downstream ecosystems and livelihoods - Dam reoperation can in principle reintroduce a near natural flow regime while increasing overall annual hydropower production but it requires significant adjustments elsewhere to ...
Mul, Marloes L.
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Quantification of the cross-sectoral impacts of waterweeds and their control in Ghana [PDF]
The Akosombo Dam on the Volta River in Ghana was built in 1963 to provide cheap energy to fuel industry and to accelerate the economic growth of the country.
Akpabey, Felix Jerry
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Agriculture in African South of the Sahara (SSA) can be transformed if the right public support is provided at the initial stage, and it can sustain itself once the enabling environment is put in place.
Takeshima, Hiroyuki; Jimah, Kipo; Kolavalli, Shashidhara; Diao, Xinshen; Funk, Rebecca Lee +1 more
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Epidemiology of Cryptosporidium Sp Upstream the Water Treatment Plants in Kpong and Weija, Ghana [PDF]
Cryptosporidium sp was first reported in 1907 in a wide range of domestic animals. It was later found to be zoonotic. These parasites of the Apicomplexa family are found in association with diarrhoea in calves and are water-borne.
Ayeh-Kumi, P. F. +5 more
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Hydropower plants in Ghana have suffered several low level operations within the past two decades. This paper looks at optimum operations of the plants during these low level conditions.
Obeng, DM +3 more
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