U.S. government agency. General information including the history of hydropower development, a glossary of terms, and major producers.

Conservation and community organizations working to reduce the impacts of FERC licensed hydropower projects on the rivers of California. Contains relicensing resources.

Information on dams, water diversions, impoundments, and hydroelectric projects, their impacts, and related links.

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.

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.

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.

Basic information and FAQs about small systems, provided by the Jade Mountain company.

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.

U.S. organization that promotes hydropower by facilitating research and providing educational opportunities. Includes public information.

Role of hydroelectric generation in Hawaii, including descriptions of specific facilities, facts, and links.

Federal, state, and local conservation and recreation organizations working to reform policies and achieve improvements to rivers altered by dams with resources for citizen participation in the relicensing process.

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. ?

ICH promotes the development and utilization of hydroelectric power resources through education and training, project development, energy conservation and courses and seminars in environmental management.

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.

Resources for citizen involvement in the re-licensing of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Project 516.

Information about run-of-the-river systems up to 300 kilowatts. Includes the microhydro discussion group, microhydro basics, and links.

U.S. trade association. A comprehensive site containing policy information, relicensing information, and generally promoting industry interests.

Network specializing in very small hydro systems, up to 5 kilowatts. Includes articles, down loadable publications, and links.

Tennessee Valley Authority site with a description and diagram of a generic hydroelectric dam and a pumped storage facility.

Information about dam relicensing and related issues on Idaho rivers including the Salmon, Snake, Bear, Moyie, and Boundary Creek.

Photographs and descriptions of problems caused by pump turbines.

Basic overview of small systems, with links.

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.

Proposal for a small-scale, run-of-river, hydroelectric development in British Columbia.

Description of the project, the relicensing process, and a newsletter about the relicensing process.

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.

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.

Site by the Foundation for Water and Energy Education. Promotes and provides extensive information about hydropower in the U.S. Northwest.

Information about hydroelectric power, state resource assessments, technolgy research and development, environmental concerns, and advanced hydropower turbines.

Reference and historical information, kits, pictures, and plans for water wheels and water turbines.