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nounthe power to do work that is latent in a head of water

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Jian, Construction Project Management: Modes and Innovations, China Waterpower Press, Beijing, China, 2006.
In contrast, productive factors such as waterpower have faded in importance compared with amenable characteristics such as bicycle paths and restaurants.
Song, Environmental hydrogeology around dam-site, China WaterPower Press, Beijing, China, 2007.
The goal of the study is to review opportunities for optimal use of the waterpower potential of River Crna, in order to choose the most favorable opportunity for realization of these two significant projects.
Cotton mill machinery was run first on waterpower, mills located on convenient rivers or streams.
Certainly there are economic incentives to be more sustainable if you have the ability to reduce materials, consumption of waterpower and the use of pesticide inputs--all of those things are related to sustainability initiatives.
cities that owe their establishment and early existence to some natural geographic advantage they had over other cities--for example, being near a waterfall that provided waterpower or being a port city when river traffic was the only way commerce could be conducted with other parts of the nation.
International Waterpower and Dam Construction, 57(1): 26-29.
The Ontario Waterpower Association (OWA) is launching new Aboriginal programming through the University of Sudbury.
Wind and waterpower had been widely used for grinding grain and sawing wood, but the advent of the steam engine in the 1860s increased the use of wood fuels.
The grinding mills were operated by waterpower, such as was available in Barre.