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A guide to help planners and engineers to the improvment of future water projects. The past century of global experience on water projects is presented as the basis for creating new approaches. First-hand analyses, including 35 case studies from 25 countries, portray the influence of politicians, biologists, engineers, computer models and physicians on the spectacular successes and failures of the builders of canals and dams. By drawing on this experience, the author outlines methods for assessing, predicting and preventing major water-associated diseases around large dams, canals and irrigation systems.
Contents
Panama Canal: recognition of French error in trying sea-level canal; development of efficient means of earth moving; overcoming malaria and yellow fever in labour force. St. Lawrence Seaway: international co-operation; invasion of Great Lakes by lampreys; Asian clams and zebra mussels. Tennessee Valley Authority: multipurpose operation; eradication of malaria from valley; development for fisheries and recreation; control of eutrophication. African dams: Aswan on Nile River; Volta in Ghana; Manantali and Diama on Senegal river; Kariba on Zambezi river. Tropical irrigation system: Blue Nile systems in Gezira of Sudan; Indus and Ganges river systems. Dams in the Americas: Hoover and Glen Canyon; dams in New England rivers; Itaipu in Brazil. Asian dams: the Indus river dams in Pakistan; Chinese dams; Narmada Valley dams in India; proposals for the Mekong river.
