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  • Las Vegas needs to let the market decide where the water goes

    Las Vegas needs to let the market decide where the water goes

    The only reason Las Vegas has managed to thrive in the scorching desert is that its water is subsidized and its use is disconnected from the real cost.

    by Andrew B. Wilson, Jan 03, 2012
  • Sedimentation is a building problem in the West's reservoirs

    Sedimentation is a building problem in the West's reservoirs

    The West's reservoirs are waging a constant battle against rising levels of sediment.

    by Matt Weiser, Apr 19, 2011
  • A federal agency tries to hold on to what it's built

    A federal agency tries to hold on to what it's built

    As climate change and water shortages bring an end to the era of dams, the federal Bureau of Reclamation seeks to reinvent itself.

    by Allen Best , Dec 01, 2009

  • Return of the Teton Dam?

    Idaho may rebuild the reservoir that once drowned four towns

    by Francisco Tharp, Apr 04, 2008

  • When dams were young and gardenias a nickel apiece

    Tom Wolf talks to his 90-year-old mother about the Great Depression and the big dams that were built in the West in the 1930s.

    by Tom Wolf, Jan 28, 2008

  • Dam removal considered for Klamath

    Farmers, environmentalists, fishermen and tribes are talking with PacifiCorp officials about the possible removal of four dams on the Klamath River

    by Brett Wilkison, Apr 17, 2006

  • The Latest Bounce

    Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner John Keys resigns; Phoenix finally gets some rain, but drought continues; Bonneville Power Administration must keep the Fish Passage Center open; Forest Service looks to outsource more jobs

    by Matt Jenkins, Apr 03, 2006

  • Super-sized dam could be a cash register for California farmers

    The Bureau of Reclamation has agreed to deliver more water to California’s Central Valley Project than it actually has, and is considering raising Shasta Dam to provide it

    by Hilary Watts, Aug 22, 2005

  • Follow-up

    Army Corps of Engineers will have to release water from Columbia and Snake river dams to help salmon; Montana mining ban is not a property "taking"; kinks in plan to drill for natural gas at Colorado nuclear site.

    by Laura Paskus, Jun 27, 2005

  • So-called 'peace treaty' won't save the Rio Grande

    Environmentalists made a mistake when they settled with the city of Albuquerque over water use on the Middle Rio Grande in New Mexico

    by Lisa Robert, May 02, 2005
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