Environment

PART 2

VOCABULARY

to evaporate испарять runoff объем to deposit осаждаться to derive from получать, извлекать

to account for отчитываться, насчитывав abundant имеющийся в изобилии a great deal of большое количество native people коренные жители

a)

b)

1) falling water	i;	» большое количество
2) ultimately	2)	потребности в электроэнергии
3) differences	3]	падающая вода
4) land elevation	4)	объем осадков
5) rainfall runoff	5]	полностью
6) energy supply	6^	имеющийся в изобилии
7) abundant	7)	различия
8) electrical needs	8)	поднятие земли
9) a great deal of	9)	энергоресурсы
10) residential customers	io;	бытовые потребители

2. Answer the questions using the information from the text.

a) How much electricity is produced by hydropower?

b) Why is the energy in flowing water being constantly renewed?

c) What can you say about hydropower in Canada?

d) What country produces more than 99% of its electricity with hydropower?

e) What is the second largest producer of hydropower in the world?

• Read the text below and point out the advantages of hydropower.

Hydropower is clean. It prevents the burning of 22 billion gallons of °il or 120 million tons of coal each year. Hydropower does not pro­duce greenhouse gases or other air pollution. Hydropower leaves be­hind no waste. Reservoirs formed by hydropower projects in Wiscon­sin have expanded water-based recreation' resources, and they suppon diverse, healthy, and productive fisheries. In fact, catch rates are sub­stantially higher on hydropower reservoirs than natural lakes.

Section I. Power Engineering

Unit

4. Hydropower. Facts

I

И Fuel

И Maintenance I Operation

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