Local authorities in Yunnan province, however, are considering damming the Salween in the quake prone upstream region.

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Flow rates on the Columbia are affected by many large upstream reservoirs, many diversions for irrigation, and, on the lower stretches, reverse flow from the tides of the Pacific Ocean.

Smaller shock angles are associated with higher upstream Mach numbers, and the special case where the shock wave is at 90 to the oncoming flow (Normal shock), is associated with a Mach number of one.

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Located on the border between Zambia and Democratic Republic of the Congo, it makes up 110 km of the total length of the Congo, lying between its Luapula River (upstream) and Luvua River (downstream) segments.

So perhaps we could develop a strategy of change, which requires humility. And in my business as an architect, it's unfortunate the word humility and the word architect have not appeared in the same paragraph since The Fountainhead.

According to the strategy, OMV intends to increasingly divert its investments from the refining and filling station business to the upstream business (Exploration Production), where two thirds of future investments will be made.

Four centuries after the European discovery of the Amazon river, the total cultivated area in its basin was probably less than , excluding the limited and crudely cultivated areas among the mountains at its extreme headwaters.

Flash floods in recent years in two Indian frontier states Himachal Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh served as an ugly reminder of China s lack of information sharing on its upstream projects.

Thus, governments interested in closing the health gap such as the British Labour government in 1997 2010 usually end up pursuing such relatively painless downstream interventions.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Wednesday that the bullying of Egypt over the construction of dams along the Nile River must end as upstream nations attempt to implement a number of water projects despite Cairo s opposition.

In the early 2000s, OMV expanded into Eastern Europe, by acquiring around 10 of Hungarian oil company, MOL and in 2003 it acquired the upstream division of Germany s Preussag Energie, expanding its filling station networks.

So, after all the tourists that irrigate this poor region with precious income leave the viewing platforms below the falls, authorities close the sluice gates that dam the White Water River on the dangerously low upstream reservoir, and the falls cease.

Government support for realizing the vision inspired the British film maker Stanley Kubrick to present the steps in his classic movie 2001 A Space Odyssey , released in 1968. Clarke helped to write the screenplay.

Upstream dams, barrages, canals, and irrigation systems can help fashion water into a political weapon that can be wielded overtly in a war, or subtly in peacetime to signal dissatisfaction with a co riparian state.