After the spinning, the water keeps moving through the outflow, which is on the other side of the dam. ... First all, the flow of the river is severely limited by the dam. ... Through a rivers" natural course, it will pick up sediment and deposit the solid material as the speed of the river decreases. ... As a river approaches a reservoir, the speed of the river drops, as the reservoir is flat water. ... By its natural properties, a river will again carry X amount of sediment, which means it will pick up dirt from the bottom and sides of a river. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Over the past two decades, scientists have been working arduously in search of answers of climatic change and other nature-based phenomenon instead of finding a way to prevent it. ... "Go to the parking lot of the nearest suburban supermarket and look around: the only conclusion you can draw is that to reach the grocery, people must drive through three or four raging rivers and up the side of a trackless canyon" (p.593). ...

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Side affects caused from our growing population and increasing technology has contributed and will continue to contribute to the degradation of our shared natural environment. ... Other options such as hydropower and nuclear power can be used to cut back on carbon emissions, but their side effects are harmful as well. When a river is dammed fish cannot migrate, and years of sedimentation render the dam useless in the future. ... Run off from parking lots and other paved areas should be treated just as sewage is. ... To make recycling available, laws should be passed which prohibit excess du...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate