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  • Dam-Reservoir Impact & Information Archive: DRIIA - Information on dams, water diversions, impoundments, and hydroelectric projects, their impacts, and related links.
  • U.S. DOE Hydropower Program - Information about hydroelectric power, state resource assessments, technology research and development, environmental concerns, and advanced hydropower turbines.
  • Hydro Research Foundation - U.S. organization that promotes hydropower by facilitating research and providing educational opportunities. Includes public information.
  • National Hydropower Association - U.S. trade association. A comprehensive site containing policy information, relicensing information, and generally promoting industry interests.
  • Microhydro Web Portal - Information about run-of-the-river systems up to 300 kilowatts. Includes the microhydro discussion group, microhydro basics, and links.
  • Lake Murray, Saluda River, Columbia, South Carolina Dam Re-Licensing - Resources for citizen involvement in the re-licensing of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Project 516.
  • Pico Hydro - Network specializing in very small hydro systems, up to 5 kilowatts. Includes articles, down loadable publications, and links.
  • Hydro Information Systems Turbnpro Version 3 Software - Software for the selection of hydroelectric turbines. Determines preferred turbine size, type, and arrangement from site data. Predicts the performance and energy production for the site.
  • Federal Power Act - Statutory framework for the U.S. regulation of the construction, operation, and maintenance of dams, water conduits, reservoirs, power houses, and transmission lines related to the utilization of water resources.
  • International Small-Hydro Atlas - Technological and regulatory information related to project development, including project sites, organizations, contacts, literature, assessment tools and methodologies,opportunities for research and development, and financing guidelines.
  • Water Wheel Factory - Reference and historical information, kits, pictures, and plans for water wheels and water turbines.
  • Bureau of Reclamation Hydropower Program - U.S. government agency. General information including the history of hydropower development, a glossary of terms, and major producers.
  • El Dorado Irrigation District FERC Project 184 Relicensing - Documents associated with the hydro-electric relicensing project, primarily located in the El Dorado National Forest in California. Includes calendar, scientific studies, and a list server for project information.
  • California Hydropower Reform Coalition - Conservation and community organizations working to reduce the impacts of FERC licensed hydropower projects on the rivers of California. Contains relicensing resources.
  • Saint Lawrence FDR Power Project Relicensing - Description of the project, the relicensing process, and a newsletter about the relicensing process.
  • RETScreen International - Renewable Energy Project Analysis Software - Free software provided by Canada to evaluate renewable energy projects. Evaluate the energy production, life-cycle costs, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction for central-grid and isolated-grid connected small hydro projects.
  • Industrial Screen Products - Product and contact information for manufacturer of wire fish screens that prevent entrainment, injury, or death of targeted aquatic species by physically stopping fish from entering a water intake.  
  • Power Matters - Hydroelectric Power - Tennessee Valley Authority site with a description and diagram of a generic hydroelectric dam and a pumped storage facility.
  • Three Gorges Probe - Information about the scientific, technical, economic, social, and environmental effects of completing the Three Gorges dam in China, as well as the alternatives to the dam.
  • Turning to Hydropower - Site by the Foundation for Water and Energy Education. Promotes and provides extensive information about hydropower in the U.S. Northwest.
  • Snake Dams - Collected stories from the Tri-City Herald about the controversy surrounding the possible breaching of the Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose, and Lower Granite dams on the Lower Snake River in Washington State.
  • Cink Hydro Energy k.s. - Describes small-scale hydroelectric technology (portable to 15 kilowatts, stationary from 50 kilowatts to 5 megawatts) utilizing new high efficiency (84%) cross-flow turbines, available from FINESA, Inc., Prague, Czech Republic.