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Lori Pottinger: Dammed Crazy: What Do California's Water Woes Teach Us?California is schizophrenic when it comes to water. In the past week, we Californians have been bombarded with news about our troubled water system, good and bad. The most encouraging news comes from the northern part of the state, where a deal has finally been struck to remove four very... |
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Lori Pottinger: The Wrong Climate for Big Dams in AfricaAfrica is the least electrified place in the world. Some 550 million Africans have no access to electricity. Not only are they living in the dark; many Africans also have a tenuous water supply. The majority depend directly on rivers and lakes for water. Water stress is growing, creeping a... |
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Lori Pottinger: Not-So-Muddy Waters Put Millions at RiskMore evidence that dams really are a dirty business. The world could see an epidemic of "Hurricane Katrina" destruction from storms if dam builders persist in bottling up more rivers. Most of the world's major river deltas are sinking, thanks in large part to dams withholding land-bu... |
