How to pronounce “dams”(noun) in English

They've got big dams and four kinds of nuclear reactors and so on.

The Chinese are building dams on-- there was a big project, the Myitsone dam, which was going to be built by the Chinese, and it has been put on hold.

centers bridges and dams for safety reasons and from Indian burial grounds

You should not get dams.

is that dams are coming down.

So a lot of dams are coming down.

And when those dams come down, sometimes deliberately, for example, a great model case is the Elah River in Washington State.

If those dams have been up for, you know, 80 or 100 years, you might wonder, "Can a river ecosystem rebound?"

in predicting that the dams in New Orleans would burst someday if there were a Category 4 or 5 hurricane.

public schools and dams and roads and bridges and education educating a whole generation of young people at a level and scale never been done before

five huge tall dams in Patagonia now um and I say one reason we shouldn't damn Patagonia is because it's one of the wildest and most beautiful places on

It could be re-powering existing dams, et cetera.

it would take 12 Hoover dams operating nonce just to take care of one day's

There's been really popular uprising against these dams.

the merely consumptive value of producing electricity from those dams and that's how we'll make the case well as I said in some way I don't mind

Rivers is that River by river uh they got knocked out by small scale dams just as you guys have experienced sort of

and sell it in an ice house during the summertime um each of these little dams cut off a little piece of the salmon

piece by piece by piece by piece and then finally in 1798 the big dams come um and they put a dam across the main

of copper right now their infrastructure building, dams and all that.

That’s what they use at dams and stuff.

aesthetic value of Patagonia outweighs the merely consumptive value of producing electricity from those dams and that's how we'll make the case well

of ancient Kush and Nubia in the Sudan, which are threatened by the construction of dams.

Or I don't know if it's been canceled or not, but there are other dams going in.

China pays in infrastructures, bridge, dams, railways.

environment my dad went to work for the core of engineers and they were building big dams on the Missouri River and all

There was a real period where, you know, dams were going up, we were doing lots and lots of damming across the rivers

But after a real sort of go-go period, a lot of those dams are very old.

water would mean reversing the flow of that water which would be like the three gorgeous Dam type technology in China big dams big reservoirs and then you'd

in the 50s and 60s when uh again in in California we had uh a lot of hydroelectric dams coming in and the Sierra Club said this is

unacceptable and nuclear power is just coming on and for a few years there the Sierra Club said nuclear power is better than dams um and they changed their mind

in the 50s and 60s when uh again in in California we had uh a lot of hydroelectric dams coming in and the Sierra Club said this is

unacceptable and nuclear power is just coming on and for a few years there the sh Club said nuclear power is better than dams um and they changed their mind

So you actually have, in the tributaries, these sorts of dams being built and new lakes being

As populations moved west and started building whale towns, up and down the Pacific Northwest, and then started building dams, we've been killing

There's hydroelectric power which could be from dams.

Highways, bridges, tunnels, and dams, sewer systems,

He also founded nuclear power stations, hydroelectric dams; he invested in labs and research facilities.

There are a lot of environmentalists who are very afraid, because a lot of the places they're putting dams are going to be flooding wetlands, which for instance, are the only habitat for

And the thought of the tremendous amount of species, in fact, are going to be threatened if these dams go in.

The thing is that, as for the dam you mentioned, in Africa there have been about a hundred sites prepared for dams -- or, not prepared, but analyzed that were good for dams.

You know, if salmon haven't gone upriver for a hundred years, what will happen when the dams come down, when that physical obstacle

So, when we talk about niche construction in humans, we're not just talking about making buildings or dams or using fire to heat things.

great last wild places of the Earth the Patagonian region of Chile should not be damned there are proposals to build five huge tall dams in Patagonia now um and I