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1) Dams
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"Carefully leveled text and engaging full-color photos introduce early fluent readers to the world's most amazing dams while explaining the engineering behind their creation. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
Publisher
Inecom Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (64 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Rumors and fears that the Conemaugh Lake Reservoir had reached its summit and the South Fork Dam might burst were widespread for many years. By Friday, May 31, 1889, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, it had been raining for a week. Finally at 3:10 pm the center of the dam gave way. Considered the worst flood disaster in the nation's history - 2,209 persons were killed, a countless number of bodies were never found.
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Nomad Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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v, 90 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm.
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"Canals and Dams! With 25 Science Projects for Kids invites kids ages 7 though 10 to investigate the waterways that help the world run! Through fun facts and engaging content, readers explore record-breaking structures such as the Panama Canal and Hoover Dam. They also learn about the physics that make canals and dams work! Elementary-aged kids discover how hundreds of years of innovation created the canals and dams we know today and how this technology...
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Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2017-
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volumes : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Pig maintains the dam that keeps a dangerous black fog from enveloping Sunrise Valley, but when a massive tidal wave of black fog begins to menace the valley, Pig and his friends Fox and Hippo must face the world on the other side.
7) Kariba: 1
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Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
223 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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"Siku has always called the Zambezi River her home. She understands the water--and strangely enough, it seems to understand her, too, bending to her will and coming to her aid in times of need. But things are changing on the river--a great dam is being built, displacing thousands of Shonga people--and things are changing in Siku, too, as her ability to manipulate water grows out of control, and visions of a great serpent pull her further from reality...
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Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
32 pages ; cm.
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"The Hoover Dam traces the incredible story of the colossal structure, from its construction to its important modern-day use including preventing floods and providing electricity to millions of people. Large color photos, maps, and fact boxes enrich the captivating story, which is sure to excite even the most reluctant readers." -- Publisher's website
12) Wild river
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Montgomery Clift stars as a government agent who must evacuate a small town to make way for a new dam. When an elderly matriarch refuses to leave, Chuck Glover falls in love with her granddaughter, played by Lee Remick.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
America's infrastructure was once our proudest achievement. Now its a most dangerous embarrassment. Bridges, dams, levees and highways are crumbling, toppling, being washed away, and putting us all at risk. Features interviews with journalists, noted scientists, whistleblowers who risked their lives to speak out, and politicians from both sides. Exposes the rampant collusion, corruption and cronyism within the government agencies whose very purpose...
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This report examines the opportunities for developing equitable and efficient means to manage water resources in the Dudh Koshi river system in Nepal. The report suggests economically and environmentally sustainable management considering challenges that involve climate change. The study proposes a strategic planning framework that covers the holistic, technical, economic, social, and environmental aspects of integrated water resources management...
15) Love Canal
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Love Canal originated in 1894 as part of William T. Love's dream to build a model city and power canal. The neighborhood emerged in the 1970s as an environmental nightmare and harbinger of the worldwide hazardous waste crisis. Photographs in Love Canal tell the story of the community's early development and the subsequent use of the canal by Hooker Electrochemical Company to discard industrial chemical waste from 1942 to 1953. In the late 1970s, the...
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"Principles of Irrigation Engineering" is a 1913 work by F. T. Bioletti on the subject of irrigation methods, dealing with canals, dams, storage, water supple, dry land, and related law. Frederic Theodore Bioletti (1865-1939) was an English-born American vintner. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley from 1889 to 1900, where he worked with prominent soil scientist Professor E.W. Hilgard. His work with Hilgard on the fermentation of...
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This study was conducted by the Asian Development Bank to assess the impact of projects involving the construction of dams on aquatic biodiversity in Nepal. The findings may not be authoritative, but conclusions suggest that fish populations and the diversity of species are affected due to alterations in the ecosystem and blockage in life cycle movements.
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xix, 437 pages, 16 un-numbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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An account of the daring May 1943 mission to destroy three heavily defended German dams documents the ten-week race to create the necessary weapons and orchestrate a bombing raid that nearly cost the lives of its pilots.
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxxv, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Max Hastings takes us back to the May 1943 raid to reveal how the truth of that night is considerably different from the popularized account most people know. The RAF had identified the Ruhr dams as strategic objectives as far back as 1938; in those five years Wing Commander Guy Gibson formed and trained the 617 Squadron. Hastings observes that while the dropping of Wallis?s mines provided the dramatic climax, only two of the eight aircraft lost...
Publisher
Film Movement Llc
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (572 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The villagers of Bromley End, an English hamlet, welcome a platoon of soldiers who have been assigned to their village during World War II. When the residents discover that the soldiers are disguised German paratroopers who plan to take over Bromley End, they bravely fight the Nazi occupation of their village.
Deep inside the Reich, prisoners of every nationality make it a point of honor to attempt departure from the ultimate in escape-proof prisons....
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