Lori Pottinger, Huffington Post. November 16, 2009. Thanks to grassroots advocacy and new legislation, important ecosystems across the globe will be guarded from harmful damming projects.
Dan Bacher, AlterNet. October 30, 2009. Today environmental groups from around California weighed in with their opposition to the dangerous proposed water legislation.
Dan Bacher, AlterNet. October 9, 2009. Schwarzenegger said he wants a water bill package including a peripheral canal and dams on his desk by Friday night before he will act on 700 bills awaiting his signature.
Lori Pottinger, Huffington Post. October 7, 2009. The world has long looked to California's massively engineered water system as "advanced" and worth emulating. It may be time to rethink that.
Dan Bacher, AlterNet. October 1, 2009. The government, three Indian Tribes and 25 other parties released a tentative agreement providing for the removal of four Klamath River dams owned by billionaire Warren Buffett.
Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360. June 22, 2009. China is now building a series of dams that will restrict its natural flow and threaten the sustenance of tens of millions of Southeast Asians.
Gary Hughes, AlterNet. May 27, 2009. The company is associated with a project that would result in the world's longest clearcut through globally rare forests and massive dam building.
Robert Glennon, Huffington Post. May 18, 2009. If the money needed for these hugely expensive proposals were used to fund conservation and reuse projects, the water shortage problem would be fixed.
Diane Farsetta, PR Watch. April 30, 2009. Judging from the track record of those involved, it seems reasonable to worry that it's likely to do more harm than good.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. March 26, 2009. Medha Patkar talks about trying to save one of the oldest civilizations and battling the world's most formidable institutions.
Ann Kathrin Schneider, International Rivers AlterNet: Water. March 21, 2009. Payal and I traveled to the World Water Forum in Istanbul to inform the world about the risks of building large dams.
David Biello, Yale Environment 360. February 24, 2009. Dam proponents are touting hydropower as renewable energy in an era of global warming. But the human and environmental costs are high.
Frank R. Rijsberman, Boston Review. January 21, 2009. So, is the planet drying up? Not exactly, but a growing number of people are sharing a fixed amount of water that is badly managed and polluted.
Rachel Olivieri, AlterNet. September 18, 2008. Decades ago three new dams were started every day. But the debts of temporary prosperity are all coming due and payable today.
Mario Osava, IPS News. August 14, 2008. Often included among "clean" sources of energy, small hydroelectric dams have been constructed without proper consideration of their effects.
Doug George, Christian Science Monitor. July 15, 2008. Scientists may soon conclude that dam operations are risking the cultural heritage of the Grand Canyon.
Kathy Marks, The Independent UK. July 2, 2008. Twenty five years ago a band of protesters blocked the construction of a dam and their success inspired a generation of environmentalists.
Patrick Cunningham, Independent UK. May 31, 2008. Thousands of miles of the rainforest may be flooded because of dam likely to cause a dramatic rise in greenhouse gas emissions.
Aaron Sanger, International Relations Center. May 27, 2008. A consortium of gigantic transnational companies is hoping to turn one of the most pristine rivers in the world into three "hydropower" lakes.
Joe Nick Patoski, Texas Observer. February 28, 2008. With an environmental lawyer newly installed at the helm, the Lower Colorado River Authority charts a course between growth and good sense.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. January 16, 2008. Things have moved one step closer to the largest river restoration process getting the green light.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. July 2, 2007. A fight in the Pacific Northwest over what would be the largest dam removal project has drawn an incredible cast of characters.
