Results for keyword: water projects
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Big water projects should make Westerners nervous
Demand for water is falling, so why are we going forward with giant water projects?
by Sharlene Leurig, Jan 24, 2013 -
Warning: Water policy faces an age of limits
New water projects and giant pipelines will do nothing to solve the West's drought and its increasing water shortage.
by Dan McCool, Apr 22, 2010 -
Sometimes water can cost way too much
Aaron Million's plan to pump Green River water from Wyoming to Colorado's Front Range is unlikely to succeed because it's just too darn expensive.
by Chuck Howe, Apr 08, 2010 -
Wild Turkey, gunfire and big pipelines
Aaron Million wants to build a gigantic water pipeline all the way from southwest Wyoming to Colorado's Front Range.
by Emily Underwood , Jul 22, 2009 -
A downside to downing dams?
Removing dams is more a complex experiment than a panacea, as Arizona’s Fossil Creek shows.
by Michelle Nijhuis, Oct 01, 2007 -
Running on empty in Sin City
Although many rural Nevadans are unhappy with Las Vegas’ plans for a giant groundwater project, the six other states that rely on water from the Colorado River are hoping the Nevada project goes ahead.
by Matt Jenkins, Sep 18, 2006 -
Columbia River dams revived
In Washington, tribes have been shut out of a plan for new Columbia River dams that are being touted as good for salmon as well as farmers
by Matt Jenkins, Apr 03, 2006 -
Squeezing Water from a Stone
With only a tiny share of the Colorado River available to it, Las Vegas decides to get the water it needs from elsewhere in the state – underneath the rural high-desert Basin and Range country
by Matt Jenkins, Sep 15, 2005 -
The Snake River, unplugged
The Nez Perce Tribe says that salmon-killing dams -- such as the three in Hells Canyon whose licenses are up for renewal this year – amount to an illegal "taking" of the tribe’s guaranteed right to fish
by Rachel Odell, Sep 05, 2005 -
On the Colorado, a grand experiment meets Mother Nature
A recent experimental flood from Glen Canyon Dam may have killed endangered native humpback chub in the Colorado River through Grand Canyon
by J.M. McCord, May 02, 2005
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