Lake Ruataniwha is located in the Mackenzie Basin in New Zealand's South Island. An artificial lake, it was formed as part of the Waitaki hydroelectric project. The name is ...

The Columbia River is located in the Pacific Northwest, and is the largest hydroelectricity producing river in North America. Around the turn of the 20th century, efforts were made to ...

The Mendoza River is a river in the province of Mendoza, Argentina. It is formed in the Andes range between the Aconcagua and the Tupungato, by the confluence of the ...

Lake Barrington is an artificial lake in northern Tasmania, 40 km south of Devonport. It is 20 km longLake Barrington, Parks and Wildlife Service Tasmania page one

A diversion dam is the term for a dam that diverts all or a portion of the flow of a river from its natural course. Diversion dams do not generally ...

Pumped storage hydroelectricity is a type of hydroelectric power generation used by some power plants for load balancing. The method stores energy in the form of water, pumped from ...

A barrage is an artificial obstruction at the mouth of a tidal watercourse.

Riverkeeper is an environmental non-profit dedicated to the protection of the Hudson River and its tributaries, as well as the watersheds that provide New York City with its drinking water ...