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  • D-Day for dam decommissioning approaches

    Preparations have begun to bring down a century-old dam on Fossil Creek in central Arizona

  • What's worse than the worst-case scenario? Real life

    Ten years ago, Ben Harding created a worst-case drought scenario for a U.S. Geological Survey study, but the current drought on the Colorado River may be even worse than he imagined

  • The best-laid plans

    It’s high time Arizona realized it’s a desert, and has to share the Colorado River with six other dry Western states

  • Arizona returns to the desert

    Rampant growth in the Phoenix area and a severe drought on the Colorado River challenge Arizona's water sustainability.

  • Lake Powell: When drought becomes opportunity

    The writer explores newly revealed canyons as drought dries up parts of Lake Powell

  • As dams fall, a chance for redemption

    Visits to three Western dams – California’s doomed Matilija Dam, the unfinished Elk Creek Dam in Oregon, and the Southwest’s giant Glen Canyon Dam – lead the author to consider the fact that sooner or later, every dam crumbles

  • Is Glen Canyon Dam pulling the plug on itself?

    The writer recalls the good old days when his father engineered Glen Canyon Dam

  • River advocates take a seat at the table

    Tim Holt profiles a California man who’s had an impact on the relicensing of dams.

  • Glen Canyon Voices

    InThe Glen Canyon Reader, editor Matthew Barrett Gross collects 200 years’ worth of musings about "the place no one knew" and the dam that buried it under Lake Powell

  • Once more unto the breach: Dams could fall in the Northwest

    In the Northwest, a legal decision resurrects the idea of breaching four dams on the Snake River to save endangered salmon

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