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• Water-power -- United States
• Hydroelectric power plants
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• Hydraulic power plants
• Hydroelectricity
• Hydroelectric power
• Hydropower
• Waterpower

• Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Hydro Nepal: Journal of Water, Energy, and Environment (2007-) (full serial archives)

• Fish Passage Technologies: Protection at Hydropower Facilities (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Hydro Nepal: Journal of Water, Energy, and Environment (2007-) (full serial archives)

• Hydroelectric Power Resources of the United States, Developed and Undeveloped (partial serial archives)
• Annual Report of the Federal Power Commission, by Federal Power Commission (partial serial archives)

• Hydroelectric Power Resources of the United States, Developed and Undeveloped (partial serial archives)

• Kortes Dam and Powerplant: Technical Record of Design and Construction (1959), by United States Bureau of Reclamation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Niagara Power: History of the Niagara Falls Power Company, 1886-1918 (2 volumes; Niagara Falls, NY: Privately printed for the Niagara Falls Power Co., 1927), by Edward Dean Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Renewable Ocean Energy Sources (2 parts; 1978-1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • Part I (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion): page images at HathiTrust
  • Part II (Working Papers: Ocean Winds, Currents, Waves, Tides and Salinity Gradients; two copyrighted figures omitted): multiple formats at archive.org

• The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
  • searchable HTML with commentary at Bartleby
  • HTML at Bibliomania
  • Gutenberg text

• Exposition of the Principles of Abbott's Hydraulic Engine (Boston: S. R. Hart, 1835), by John Abbott (page images at Google)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Stream Reach Inventory and Channel Stability Evaluation: A Watershed Management Procedure (St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Region, 1975), by United States Forest Service Northern Region (page images at HathiTrust)

• Suspended Sediment Discharges in Streams (Hydrologic Engineering Center technical paper #19; 1969), by Charles E. Abraham and Hydrologic Engineering Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Principles and Practice of Flow Meter Engineering (seventh edition; Foxboro, MA: The Foxboro Co., 1949), by L. K. Spink (page images at HathiTrust)

• Handbook of Steam Flow Measurement (second edition; Foxboro, MA: The Foxboro Co., 1936), by L. K. Spink (page images at HathiTrust)

• Man and the Earth, by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (HTML at LOC)
• The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines (based on the second edition, 1866), by William Stanley Jevons (HTML with commentary at eoearth.org)
• Sailing on the Great Lakes and Rivers of America, by John Disturnell (page images at MOA)
• The Ultimate Resource II: People, Materials, and Environment, by Julian Lincoln Simon (text files at juliansimon.com)
• Global 2000 Revisited: What Shall We Do?, by Gerald O. Barney, contrib. by Jane Blewett and Kristen R. Barney (HTML and PDF at millenniuminstitute.net)
• The Holy Earth (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by L. H. Bailey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Wildlife in Alaska: An Ecological Reconnaissance (originally published 1953; reprinted Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972), by A. Starker Leopold and F. Fraser Darling (page images at HathiTrust)

• Amazonia: Resiliency and Dynamism of the Land and Its People (c1995), by Nigel J. H. Smith, Emanuel Adilson S. Serrao, Paulo T. Alvim, and Italo C. Falesi (HTML at UNU Press)

• Arctic Politics: Conflict and Cooperation in the Circumpolar North (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College; University Press of New England, c1992), by Oran R. Young (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• Russia in the Arctic (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2011), ed. by Stephen Blank (multiple formats with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

• Land Resources of the People's Republic of China (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, c1983), ed. by Kenneth Ruddle and Wu Chuanjun (illustrated HTML at UNU)

• Belgian Africa's Total War (ca. 1942), by Walter Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ecology and the Politics of Survival: Conflicts Over Natural Resources in India, by Vandana Shiva (HTML at UNU)

• Conflict over Natural Resources in South-East Asia and the Pacific (1990), ed. by Lim Teck Ghee and Mark J. Valencia (HTML at UNU)

• Women in Wildlife Science: Building Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2022), ed. by Carol L. Chambers and Kerry L. Nicholson (PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (c2009), by Lester R. Brown (HTML and PDF with commentary at earth-policy.org)
• Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (2008), by Lester R. Brown (HTML and PDF with commentary at earth-policy.org)
• Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), ed. by Elinor Ostrom, Roy Gardner, and James Walker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Missouri, Land and Water: The Report of the Missouri Basin Survey Commission (Washington: GPO, 1953), by Missouri Basin Survey Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the Joint Palestine Survey Commission (reprinted in New York, 1928), by Joint Palestine Survey Commission
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Annual Review of Resource Economics (partial serial archives)
• Resources (full serial archives)
• Outdoor America (partial serial archives)

• Natural Resources Development in the Sahel: The Role of the United Nations System (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, c1986), by Lee H. MacDonald (HTML at UNU)

• Land, Wood, and Water (New York: Fleet Pub. Corp., c1960), by Robert S. Kerr, ed. by Malvina Stephenson and Tris Coffin, contrib. by Lyndon B. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Glory Trail: The Great American Migration and Its Impact on Natural Resources (1958), by Ernest Swift (PDF unl.edu)
• Conservation, Please! Questions and Answers on Conservation Topics (New York: Garden Club of America in cooperation with the American Museum of Natural History, c1950), ed. by Arthur Hawthorne Carhart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Living Resources: A Report to the Nation on the Distribution, Abundance, and Health of U.S. Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems (1995), by United States National Biological Service
  • PDF at fullerton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Biological Survey for the Nation (1994), by National Research Council Committee on the Formation of the National Biological Survey (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• Highways of Progress (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1910), by James J. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of Commission to Enquire into the Preservation, etc., of the Natural Resources of the Colony (1939), by Southern Rhodesia Commission on Natural Resources of the Colony (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Resources in Rhodesia: Implications for U.S. Policy (1976), by United States House Committee on International Relations (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Nature Inc.: Environmental Conservation in the Neoliberal Age (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c2014), ed. by Bram Büscher, Wolfram Heinz Dressler, and Robert Fletcher (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)
• Conservation, Please! Questions and Answers on Conservation Topics (New York: Garden Club of America in cooperation with the American Museum of Natural History, c1950), ed. by Arthur Hawthorne Carhart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vanishing Borders: Protecting the Planet in the Age of Globalization (c2000), by Hilary F. French (PDF files with commentary at worldwatch.org)
• The North, the South, and the Environment: Ecological Constraints and the Global Economy (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, c1995), ed. by V. Bhaskar and Andrew Glyn (HTML at UNU)
• Checking the Waste: A Story in Conservation (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1911), by Mary Huston Gregory (Gutenberg text)
• The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States, by Charles Richard Van Hise (HTML at LOC)
• The Greening of Industrial Ecosystems (1994), ed. by Braden R. Allenby and Deanna J. Richards (page images at NAP)
• The Earth as Modified by Human Action: A New Edition of Man and Nature (1878), by George P. Marsh (Gutenberg text)
• Man and Nature: or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (New York: C. Scribner and Co., 1869), by George P. Marsh (page images at MOA)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.