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37. Save Our Wild Salmon | Home Page
- www.wildsalmon.org
- We believe the most effective method of achieving our goal is by removing the four Lower Snake River dams. ...
38. BPA- Power of The Columbia- Photo Gallery
- www.bpa.gov
- dams, rainbows, river views, historical river images Gallery 2.
39. Dams Incorporated
- www.rivernet.org
- Dams Incorporated by ERN .
- DAMS INCORPORATED.
- Our campaigns have catalysed legislation that bans the building of new large dams in several European countries — but this has been won only after the loss of most of the free-flowing rivers in Europe. Yet today, when the Northern dam industry pushes its technologies onto the South, it ignores, misrepresents or downplays many of the negative environmental, social and economic impacts of large dams which have discredited the industry in Europe.
- SSNC has therefore commissioned The Corner-House to undertake the present study, “Dams Incorporated”. ... Our hope is that it will serve as a useful tool for NGOs campaigning all over the world against unsustainable large dams.
- THE DAMS.
40. What Makes The Columbia River Basin Unique And How We Benefit
- www.fwee.org
- For instance, the Minidoka Project along the Snake uses water from six storage and two diversion dams. ...
41. Open Spaces Magazine - America's Evolving View of Dams by Bruce Babbitt
- www.open-spaces.com
- America's Evolving View of Dams by Bruce Babbitt .
- Open Spaces Home -> Back Issues -> Volume One Number Four -> America's Evolving View of Dams by Bruce Babbitt A River Runs Against It : America's Evolving View of Dams.
- During the New Deal, President Franklin Roosevelt and his Interior Secretary, Harold Ickes, toured the West dedicating dams before large, enthusiastic crowds. Now, at the end of the century, I am out touring the country with a different message - it is time to un-dedicate some of those dams by removing them and letting the rivers run free. For we now have too many of these dams, some 75,000, the equivalent of one every day since Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. ...
- As dams go, Quaker Neck isn't much; it's only six feet high and it doesn't generate power. ...
- Why not dams? For whatever reason, we view dams as akin to the pyramids of Egypt - a permanent part of the landscape, timeless monuments to our civilization and technology. ...
- Those 75,000 dams are the cumulative result of two centuries of innovation and progress, accompanied by indifference to the natural world of river ecology. ... At the extreme, dams were built with government subsidies simply to add glamour to real estate developments. ...
- Hydro dams became cash registers overflowing with money to finance ever larger projects. ... Roosevelt and the WPA to build dams on the scale of the pharaohs - first came Bonneville Dam and Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia, then the Tennessee Valley Authority, then Shasta Dam on the Sacramento. ...
- In 1963, as the dam gates closed and the river backed up and inundated hundreds of miles of river and canyon, we came to understand that the issue involved more than just keeping dams out of national parks and lamenting the loss of nice scenery. ...
- The two dams proposed in Grand Canyon were killed by the Congress. ...
- In 1992 Congress took a tentative step in the direction of dam removal by authorizing the National Park Service to examine the feasibility of removing two dams on the Elwha River on the border of Olympic National Park in Washington. The two dams, Elwha and Glines Canyon, present a textbook case for dam removal. ...
- Meanwhile the two dams have eliminated one of the great chinook salmon runs of the Northwest. ...
42. Wired 'salmon' records how fish handle rough ride through dams
- seattlep-i.nwsource.com
- Wired 'salmon' records how fish handle rough ride through dams .
- Its mission is to record pressure changes and acceleration as it tumbles through the dam, providing scientists a new view of dams as experienced by hundreds of thousands of migrating chinook, coho, sockeye and steelhead salmon (see graphic).
- Ultimately, scientists hope to use the data to create more fish-friendly dams in Washington. ...
- Biologists with the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland will conduct tests over several days later this month near Wenatchee at Rock Island Dam, the oldest and smallest of 15 dams on the main stem of the Columbia River.
- Scientists say they want to return to the original fish design, since the idea behind the sensor is to mimic the twists and turns that live, pliable salmon make as they tumble through dams. ...
43. Dams & Development - A new framework for decision-making
- www.dams.org
- The Report of the World Commission on Dams.
44. ERN European Rivers Network and RiverNet Homepage
- www.rivernet.org
- 05 : lawn on US dams dismantling was abandonned.
- 05 : Dams in Iran: reprieve for some, no time left for others .
- Flying dams .
45. Internet Resources - Water Resources Center Archives - University of California
- www.lib.berkeley.edu
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