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Most modern reservoirs have a specially designed draw-off tower that can discharge water from the reservoir at different levels, both to access water as the water level falls, and to allow water of a specific quality to be discharged into the downstream river as "compensation water": the operators of many upland or in-river reservoirs have obligations to release water into the downstream river to maintain river quality, support fisheries, to maintain downstream industrial and recreational
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The higher the water is, the more potential energy it has and thus the more electricity can be generated. As well, the fact that this water is held up in a reservoir means that it moves down the dam through the penstocks effortlessly when gates are opened.