Reservoirs
A reservoir (; from French réservoir [ʁezɛʁvwaʁ]; lit. 'storehouse') is, most commonly, an enlarged natural or artificial lake, pond, or impoundment created using a dam or lock to store water. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of water, interrupting a watercourse to form an embayment within it, through excavation, or building any number of retaining walls or levees. Defined as a storage space for fluids, reservoirs may hold water or gasses, including hydrocarbons. Tank reservoirs store these in ground-level, elevated, or buried tanks. Tank reservoirs for water are …
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MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 25 April 2024 English
During the last ten years, several issues such as the Arab Spring, the emergence and spread of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the COVID-19 pandemic, oil price …
Asia and South Asia. They also possess large reservoirs of natural resources. Geo-politically too, Iraq …
GFI: Green Finance Institute · 24 April 2024 English
The objective of this project was to assess the materiality of nature-related risks to the UK financial sector both in the near-term and the longer-term. At least half of global …
use comes from surface water sources, such as reservoirs and rivers. Manufacturing, agriculture, and …
CSEP: Centre for Social and Economic Progress · 22 April 2024 English
The Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) conducts in-depth, policy-relevant research and provides evidence- based recommendations to the challenges facing India and the world. [...] CSEP is based in …
computed based on temperature changes in two reservoirs, i.e., surface, full knowledge of future events …
ActionAid Association (India) · 19 April 2024 English
Beyond the scheme-based commitments which some state governments and the central government have given in the form of urban employment schemes or the rural employment guarantee act << 2 >> …
farming rights in government-owned water bodies and reservoirs, with preference over non-fish farmer investors … chain, weather, tides, release of water from reservoirs, upgradation of pond preparation techniques, …
SMF: Social Market Foundation · 18 April 2024 English
He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; he is a Member of the Academia Europaea and an Honorary Fellow of …
governments built new towns, multiple nuclear reactors, reservoirs, airports and a motorway network. Net zero, affecting …
France Strategie · 17 April 2024 French
En collaboration avec le service des statistiques et de la prospective du ministère de l’Agriculture et de la Souveraineté alimentaire, France Stratégie envisage de constituer un groupe de travail formé …
production de bois, des lieux de loisirs et des réservoirs de biodiversité. Leur gestion à long terme nécessite …
Africa 21 · 16 April 2024
In part two of our feature series on human-wildlife conflict in Kenya, we paint the picture of the pain caused by the conflict and the measures being put in place …
is to diversify into surface water and build reservoirs to store excess rainfall. The experts also urge …
World Bank Group · 16 April 2024 English
Honiara Water Supply Mains, Honiara Water Supply Reservoirs and Ranadi Road to Goodwood Sewer Works. The … pipeline now fully operational. The water mains and reservoirs civil works contracts in Honiara are under implementation … 29-Dec-2023 30-Jun-2027 Comments: Volume of new reservoirs connected to the network. Component 2. Urban …
EJF: Environmental Justice Foundation · 16 April 2024 French
L’ampleur et la de la pêche INN et des violations des droits humains liées gravité des abus commis à bord de la flotte ont également à la flotte, ainsi que …
approprié, ou lorsqu’ils n’étaient pas en l’eau des réservoirs du bateau au lieu de l’eau potable. 38 La consommation … consommation d’eau dangereuse provenant de réservoirs 6.4 Pêche INN et violations des droits humains rouillés …
IRENA: International Renewable Energy Agency · 16 April 2024 English
Renewable energy
Europe’s “green battery” due to its large hydropower reservoirs and export capacity, has been a net power importer …
