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Water storage. Water storage is a broad term referring to storage of both potable water for consumption, and non potable water for use in agriculture. In both developing countries and some developed countries found in tropical climates, there is a need to store potable drinking water during the dry season. In agriculture water storage, water is ...
[7] [57] However India can use the western river waters for irrigation up to 701,000 acres with new water storage capacity not exceeding 1.54 billion m 3 and new storage works with hydropower plants (excluding permitted water storage under unlimited run of the river hydro projects) with storage not exceeding 2.0 billion m 3 and nominal flood ...
Polavaram Project. / 17.28917°N 81.65139°E / 17.28917; 81.65139. 39.28 m (129 ft) up to top of earth dam above the lowest river bed. The Polavaram Project is an under construction multi-purpose irrigation project on the Godavari River in the Eluru District and East Godavari District in Andhra Pradesh.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis's advance estimate of second quarter US gross domestic product (GDP) showed the economy grew at an annualized pace of 2.8% during the period, well above the 2% ...
Sites Reservoir. / 39.35500°N 122.34139°W / 39.35500; -122.34139. The Sites Reservoir is a proposed offstream reservoir project west of Colusa in the Sacramento Valley of northern California to be built and operated by the Sites Project Authority. The project would divert water from the Sacramento River upstream of the Sacramento ...
In good economic times, politicians in the US rush to take all the credit. In bad times, it’s the other party’s fault — or better yet, the Federal Reserve’s. The current state of the US ...
It is the economy’s latest show of strength in the face of several economic hurdles squeezing the US consumer. The Dow closed 555 points, or 1.4% higher, as investors cheered the retail sales ...
India accounts for 18% of the world's population and about 4% of the world's water resources. One of the proposed solutions to solve the country's water woes is the Indian rivers interlinking project. [ 2] Some 80 percent of its area experiences rains of 750 millimetres (30 in) or more a year. However, this rain is not uniform in time or geography.