What are some of the environmental considerations of a waterpower project?
The plans for a new waterpower plants need to consider potential impacts on the natural environment and human activities. These activities include tourism, shipping and commercial fisheries, wildlife trapping and wild rice cultivation, as well as the water intakes of municipal water systems. Waterpower projects can alter the river’s behaviour, in particular the volume of the flow of water, as well as the timing of the flow of water of the river. Waterpower projects may alter the ecology of rivers by changing water temperature, and flows and levels which in turn can affect plants, fish and wildlife and their habitat. The changes in the water levels may also affect the connections between river systems and their flood plains. However, components of the river’s hydrological regime can be incorporated into operational management strategies to help mitigate these impacts and maintain the characteristics and functions of the river’s ecosystem.
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