It's been a bad week for dams - and a very good one for the world's rivers. Here's to the activists in Australia and Mexico who fought so well to protect their rivers.
Lori Pottinger | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green
Poorer nations looking to California for ideas in dealing with vexing water problems should leapfrog over our tarnished model of destroyed rivers, crumbling infrastructure, and contentious solutions to the mess.
Carl Pope | Posted 10.01.2009 | Green
In a huge victory for America's fisheries and rivers, a broad spectrum of environmentalists, utilities, farmers, Native American nations, fishermen, and public agencies agreed to restore 300 miles of salmon grounds.
Lori Pottinger | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green
Healthy rivers are important for so many reasons, and climate change will only make their gifts that much more important. We need to convince hydropower advocates of the destructiveness of dams.
AP | JOE McDONALD and CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 02.25.2009 | Green
XIAOXI, China — The hydroelectric dam, a low wall of concrete slicing across an old farming valley, is supposed to help a power company in dista...
Wall Street Journal | ANDREW BATSON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Around 250 B.C., a Chinese official here designed an ingenious system of earthworks that tamed the flood-prone Min River and distributed its water to ...
Lori Pottinger | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green