Business Green: The Chinese government has reportedly pledged to increase its hydroelectric power capacity 50 per cent by 2015 as it continues to accelerate efforts to boost its low-carbon energy supplies. According to local reports, officials said they were aiming to increase hydropower capacity from 200 million kilowatts currently to 300 million kW by 2015. The announcement came as China's largest hydropower station, the Xiaowan dam in Yunnan province, came online. State-backed news ...
Independent: A genetically modified salmon which grows twice as fast as normal is completely safe for human consumption and poses little risk to the environment according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The regulatory body's verdict paves the way for GM animals to be produced commercially for food for the first time. The creature, dubbed "Frankenfish" by critics, looks likely to be approved for human consumption later this month. Its developers, a Boston-based company called ...
Reuters: Increasingly erratic rainfall patterns related to climate change pose a major threat to food security and economic growth, water experts said on Monday, arguing for greater investment in water storage. In a report by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), experts said Africa and Asia were likely to be hardest hit by unpredictable rainfall, and urged policymakers and farmers to try to find ways of diversifying sources of water. The IWMI research estimates that up ...
CatchmentSIM Key Features
Create a DEM from a wide range of data sources including raster, TIN, contour and spot height based models.
Supports projection and transformation between a wide range of coordinate systems and datums.
Remove flat and pits from the DEM using advanced filling and breaching algorithms.
Map the drainage path for any point in the terrain.
Automatically delineate stream networks complete with Horton ordering and full range of hydrologic attributes.
Automatically breakup a catchment into subcatchments based on a stream network, target subcatchment size or target number of subcatchments.
Automatic calculation of impervious proportions of subcatchments based on any GIS polygon layer.
Integrates with civil design packages (including 12d) to map drainage catchments for pits and other structures in urban environments.
Use bathymetry and lake data to develop stage – area – volume relationships for reservoirs and lakes.
Create a subcatchment network for export to a hydrologic model.
Chart a wide range of hydrologic attributes of subcatchments to gain perspective into the expected rainfall response of subcatchments.
Visualise your project with 3D OpenGL graphics.
Export to GoogleEarth for powerful presentations.
Seamless integration with any external software via a macro language. Buit-in scripts allow creation of files compatible with a wide range of software including
The Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) says any review of the state's south-east water retailers' books should be undertaken by an independent economic body.
