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08-17-2009, 01:49 PM
Hydropower brings with it a set of complications. Notably, impact on the environment, wildlife, the people living in the affected areas, the water, and the economy, as well as social issues including politics, law, and ethical issues.
Several groups are, at least publicly, attempting to evolve hydropower to sustainable hydropower, transforming the impact of this resource by proper planning, construction, development and maintenance.
These groups claim that their efforts are aimed at building solutions to hydro power that will manage a better balance between the environment, economics and social issues.
Several of these interests have even joined together in an effort called Sustainable Hydropower, whose website is at: http://www.sustainablehydropower.org/index.html
Who is behind this Sustainable Hydropower initiative?
Its main sponsors are the International Hydropower Association (IHA) http://www.hydropower.org/ , and the International Energy Agency: Hydro Electricity (IEAHE) http://www.ieahydro.org/
The Sustainable Hydropower website is maintained by the Australian company Hydro Tasmania http://www.hydro.com.au/
To encourage new ideas and initiatives, Sustainable Hydropower has put up a webpage form where anyone can submit their proposals to the group for consideration and possible implementation. That page is at : http://www.sustainablehydropower.org/site/info/schemenominationform.html
If we really are in the middle of a Great Recession, then now is a perfect time for entrepreneurs and other visionaries to come forth and bring to light their new ways of generating clean energy.
Several groups are, at least publicly, attempting to evolve hydropower to sustainable hydropower, transforming the impact of this resource by proper planning, construction, development and maintenance.
These groups claim that their efforts are aimed at building solutions to hydro power that will manage a better balance between the environment, economics and social issues.
Several of these interests have even joined together in an effort called Sustainable Hydropower, whose website is at: http://www.sustainablehydropower.org/index.html
Who is behind this Sustainable Hydropower initiative?
Its main sponsors are the International Hydropower Association (IHA) http://www.hydropower.org/ , and the International Energy Agency: Hydro Electricity (IEAHE) http://www.ieahydro.org/
The Sustainable Hydropower website is maintained by the Australian company Hydro Tasmania http://www.hydro.com.au/
To encourage new ideas and initiatives, Sustainable Hydropower has put up a webpage form where anyone can submit their proposals to the group for consideration and possible implementation. That page is at : http://www.sustainablehydropower.org/site/info/schemenominationform.html
If we really are in the middle of a Great Recession, then now is a perfect time for entrepreneurs and other visionaries to come forth and bring to light their new ways of generating clean energy.