Hydropower reservoirs often have multiple uses - providing drinking water, water for irrigation, flood and drought control, navigation services, as well as energy supply. Hydropower currently is ...

They include facilities and undertaking for hydropower-generating ... prevention of water logging, irrigation and water and soil preservation. The construction of water conservancy facilities ...

The Maerdang Hydropower Station, situated in Maqen County, Northwest China's Qinghai Province, at an average altitude of ...

So too will less rain during the growing season. Farmers upstream of hydropower plants will increasingly turn to irrigation to ensure their livelihoods, reducing the water available downstream.

Migori, Kenya: The national government has earmarked Gogo Falls, Migori County for a major facelift to increase its hydropower generation ... would also be tapped for irrigation projects along ...