Results for keyword: Dams And Water Supply Projects
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Dooming a dam saves dollars
Environmentalists are rejoicing at the decision, largely economic, to demolish Condit Dam in southeastern Washington.
by Rebecca Clarren, Oct 11, 1999 -
Another plug to pull?
In California, the Sierra Club wants to remove a dam and restore Hetch Hetchy Valley, once part of Yosemite National Park and now flooded by a reservoir that provides water to San Francisco.
by Rebecca Clarren, May 10, 1999 -
A history of how a grassroots rebellion won a water war
Peter Carrels' "Uphill Against Water: The Great Dakota Water War" is a shocking story of how bureaucracy destroyed rural economies and indigenous people, all in the name of progress.
by Ed Marston, Apr 12, 1999 -
Private dam planned on public land
Environmentalists and the Forest Service oppose a private company's plan to dam the Dry Fork of the Little Bighorn River in Wyoming.
by Gabriel Ross, Mar 01, 1999 -
A water baron takes on the establishment
Would-be water baron Gary Boyce has locals worried about his plans to pump water from under his huge Baca Grande Ranch in Colorado's San Luis Valley and sell it to thirsty Front Range cities.
by Ed Quillen, Oct 26, 1998 -
Western Slope wins water wrestle
A judge shoots down a water project that would have diverted water from the Gunnison River Basin on Colorado's Western Slope over to Denver's thirsty suburbs.
by Michelle Nijhuis, Aug 03, 1998 -
Locals stand behind an aging dam
The Savage Rapids Dam on Oregon's Rogue River remains standing despite the threatened coho salmon, because local irrigators are determined to save it.
by Michelle Nijhuis, Jun 22, 1998 -
We wanted to democratize Western water
In her own words, Denise Fort, chair of the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission, defends the water report.
by Tom Knudson, Jun 22, 1998 -
This report could destroy irrigated agriculture
In his own words, rancher Patrick O'Toole explains why he dissented from the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission's report.
by Tom Knudson, Jun 22, 1998 -
Western water: Why it's dirty and in short supply
The new report, "Water in the West: The Challenge for the Next Century," is a remarkably far-sighted federal study that should serve as both a mission statement and a wake-up call about water management in the arid West.
by Tom Knudson, Jun 22, 1998
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