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water power

A form of energy that is created by flowing water sources (such as rivers). The town now uses water power to generate electricity.

See also: power, water

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The Ontario Waterpower Association is I an industry group representing 150 members engaged in the hydroelectric industry in the province.

Waterpower group partnering with Sudbury university

This Lockean logic was clearly articulated in the Swedish context in 1886 by the famous Supreme Court Justice Knut Olivecrona, who argued that it was perfectly justifiable to move the Saami out of the way, given current agricultural interests, and the state's increasing interests in forestry, mining, the railroads, and waterpower. He framed this as

Internal colonisation and indigenous resource sovereignty: wind power developments on traditional Saami lands

Cai, Applications of the Optical Fiber Sensing Technology in Dam Engineering, China Waterpower Press, 2002.

Design of system for monitoring seepage of levee engineering based on distributed optical fiber sensing technology

The Ontario Trillium Foundation has also filled a funding request from the Ontario Waterpower Association with the OWA using those funds to support the efforts of the Chiefs of Ontario in delivering environmental assessment and business planning training to First Nations communities in Ontario's Far North.

Ontario Birchbark: special section providing news from Ontario

Wilderness and waterpower; how Banff National Park became a hydroelectric storage reservoir.

Wilderness and waterpower; how Banff National Park became a hydroelectric storage reservoir

A LARGE PROPORTION OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION DEPENDS EXISTENTIALLY on the water (and waterpower) of one or more of the globe's major transnational river systems.

Governing the great transnational river systems: an introductory word

Lind opens his book with Hamilton's bold plan to promote American industries by building a public-private industrial park harnessing the Passaic River's waterpower in Paterson, New Jersey.

Looking backward: the past, rescued from right-wing mythmaking

In Batavia, entrepreneurs and investors found a small community with rail access, abundant native limestone available for factory construction, a skilled work force and waterpower on the Fox River.

Celebrating local heritage: Batavia, ILL., holds tight to title of "windmill capital of the world"

engineers, dam engineers, waterpower engineers, bridge engineers;

Immigration of foreign nationals with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) degrees

From an environmental standpoint, solar, wind and waterpower are all non-emission power sources.

DAMS: LIFELINE FOR THE ECONOMY

That the northeastern region of the young United States was richly endowed with waterpower and coal deposits was critical to the country's early industrialization as well as to the North's eventual victory in the Civil War.

Twenty-first century energy superpower

Acclimatisation of forage crustaceans into the Kaunas waterpower plant reservoir and possibility of their migration into other waters of Lithuania.

The first finding of the Ponto-Caspian mysid shrimp Hemimysis anomala G. O. Sars (Mysidae) in the Estonian coastal sea/Ponto-Kaspia paritolu musiidi Hemimysis anomala esmaleid Eesti rannikumeres

Intending to provide waterpower and navigation around the rapids, Grand Rapids businessmen began digging a canal in 1835 and finished it in 1842.

Steamin' on the Grand

In 2007, the Ontario Waterpower Association completed an exhaustive, province-wide survey that categorized potential hydro sites.

Power of the first people; Aboriginal involvement is key to small-scale hydro in Canada