The Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario: address. (1923)

The Public Ownership League of America Conference, September 10th to 13th, 1923, at Toronto, Ontario.

Canadian Niagara Power Glass Slide - Group of men walking through the hydro tunnel

Four men (unidentified) walking in tunnel wearing hard hats and carrying flashlights.

Canadian Niagara Power Glass Slide - Engineer Drawing Hydro Station

Appears to be an engineer's drawing of the Hydro Station. It is a cross-section view of the interior.

Ontario Hydro map of the St. Lawrence Power Project General Plan

Ontario Hydro map of the St. Lawrence Power Project General Plan, n.d.

Evaluation partielle du contrat de risques et benefices partages conclut entre Hydro-Quebec et Norsk Hydro Canada en 1987.

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Les relations verticales gerees par des contrats, etude theorique et application au contrat d'electricite entre Norsk-Hydro Canada Inc. et Hydro Quebec..

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Les aménagements hydro-agricoles des vallées de la Néma et de Médina Djikoye comme stratégies d’adaptation aux changements climatiques. Espoirs et vulnérabilités du socio-hydrosystème

Les déficits pluviométriques sévères enregistrés entre 1968 et 1999 ont entrainé la baisse remarquable de la production agricole et des revenus des paysans au Sénégal. En effet, l’agriculture est essentiellement pluviale, donc sensible aux aléas pluviométriques. C'est dans ce contexte climatique défavorable que des aménagements hydro-agricoles ont été réalisés dans les vallées humides de la Néma et de Médina Djikoye en vue de développer une agriculture irriguée intensive et diversifiée. L’Etat du Sénégal avait ainsi bénéficié de l’appui des partenaires du développement qui avaient intégralement financé et aménagé les ouvrages hydro-agricoles, les périmètres irrigués. Chaque intervenant avait conçu un aménagement à l’aune des ambitions du projet. Mais, le manque de cohérence entre les objectifs des intervenants et les logiques paysannes ont abouti à l’abandon de cinq périmètres aménagés. Depuis 1999, les effets durables des déficits pluviométriques persistent encore et justifient la construction de digues anti-sel. Les populations bénéficiaires participent à l’effort d’aménagement et initient une gouvernance collective des ouvrages. Les potentialités agroécologiques des vallées ont attiré les acteurs exogènes de plusieurs catégories socioprofessionnelles. Leurs stratégies d’accès au foncier ont conduit à la perte des terres de paysans.

An Integrated Hydro geological Study of the Muvattupuzha River Basin, Kerala, India

The present investigation on the Muvattupuzha river basin is an integrated approach based on hydrogeological, geophysical, hydrogeochemical parameters and the results are interpreted using satellite data. GIS also been used to combine the various spatial and non-spatial data. The salient finding of the present study are accounted below to provide a holistic picture on the groundwaters of the Muvattupuzha river basin. In the Muvattupuzha river basin the groundwaters are drawn from the weathered and fractured zones. The groundwater level fluctuations of the basin from 1992 to 2001 reveal that the water level varies between a minimum of 0.003 m and a maximum of 3.45 m. The groundwater fluctuation is affected by rainfall. Various aquifer parameters like transmissivity, storage coefficient, optimum yield, time for full recovery and specific capacity indices are analyzed. The depth to the bedrock of the basin varies widely from 1.5 to 17 mbgl. A ground water prospective map of phreatic aquifer has been prepared based on thickness of the weathered zone and low resistivity values (<500 ohm-m) and accordingly the basin is classified in three phreatic potential zones as good, moderate and poor. The groundwater of the Muvattupuzha river basin, the pH value ranges from 5.5 to 8.1, in acidic nature. Hydrochemical facies diagram reveals that most of the samples in both the seasons fall in mixing and dissolution facies and a few in static and dynamic natures. Further study is needed on impact of dykes on the occurrence and movement of groundwater, impact of seapages from irrigation canals on the groundwater quality and resources of this basin, and influence of inter-basin transfer of surface water on groundwater.

Spatial and Temporal Variability of some Meteorological Parameters over Tropical Indian Ocean

The objective of the present study is to understand the spatial and temporal variability of sea surface temperature(SST), precipitable water, zonal and meridional components of wind stress over the tropical Indian Ocean to understand the different scales of variability of these features of Indian Ocean. Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) and wavelet analysis techniques are utilized to understand the standing oscillations and multi scale oscillations respectively. The study has been carried out over Indian Ocean and South Indian Ocean. For the present study, NCEP/NCAR(National Center for Environmental Prediction National Center for Atmospheric Research) reanalyzed daily fields of sea surface temperature, zonal and meridional surface wind components and precipitable water amount during 1960-1998 are used. The principle of EOF analysis and the methodology used for the analysis of spatial and temporal variance modes.

A Study on the Transport and Distribution of Atmospheric Aerosols and its Influence on Regional Meteorological Parameters over the Indian Subcontinent

This doctoral thesis addresses the growing concern about the significant changes in the climatic and weather patterns due to the aerosol loading that have taken place in the Indo Gangetic Plain(IGP)which includes most of the Northern Indian region. The study region comprises of major industrial cities in India (New Delhi, Kanpur, Allahabad, Jamshedpur and Kolkata). Northern and central parts of India are one of the most thickly populated areas in the world and have the most intensely farmed areas. Rapid increase in population and urbanization has resulted in an abrupt increase in aerosol concentrations in recent years. The IGP has a major source of coal; therefore most of the industries including numerous thermal power plants that run on coal are located around this region. They inject copious amount of aerosols into the atmosphere. Moreover, the transport of dust aerosols from arid locations is prevalent during the dry months which increase the aerosol loading in theatmosphere. The topography of the place is also ideal for the congregation of aerosols. It is bounded by the Himalayas in the north, Thar Desert in the west, the Vindhyan range in the south and Brahmaputra ridge in the east. During the non‐monsoon months (October to May) the weather in the location is dry with very little rainfall. Surface winds are weak during most of the time in this dry season. The aerosols that reach the location by means of long distance transport and from regional sources get accumulated under these favourable conditions. The increase in aerosol concentration due to the complex combination of aerosol transport and anthropogenic factors mixed with the contribution from the natural sources alters the optical properties and the life time of clouds in the region. The associated perturbations in radiative balance have a significant impact on the meteorological parameters and this in turn determines the precipitation forming process. Therefore, any change in weather which disturbs the normal hydrological pattern is alarming in the socio‐economic point of view. Hence, the main focus of this work is to determine the variation in transport and distribution of aerosols in the region and to understand the interaction of these aerosols with meteorological parameters and cloud properties.