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Dammed Crazy: What Do California's Water Woes Teach Us?

Lori Pottinger | Posted 12.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Salmon, Klamath River, Hydropower, Dams, California, Water Crisis, Africa, International Rivers, Green News
Lori Pottinger

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.

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The Wrong Climate for Big Dams in Africa

Lori Pottinger | Posted 11.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Rivers, Drought, Climate Change, Hydropower, Electricity, African Union, International Rivers, Green News
Lori Pottinger

Diversifying Africa's energy sector would help its climate-adaptation efforts in key ways: it would de-emphasize reliance on erratic rainfall for electricity, reduce conflict over water resources, and protect river-based ecosystems.

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Nicaragua Ten Years After Hurricane Mitch

Richard Walden | Posted 11.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Earthquake, Obama, Tsunami, Operation Usa, Extreme Weather, Smart Aid, Nicaragua, Hurricane Mitch, Natural Disasters, Central America, Hurricane Ike, Microcredit Loan, Ngo, Red Cross, Hurricane Gustav, Hydropower, Hurricane Katrina, Santa Rosa, Economic Growth for Developing Countries, Green News
Richard Walden

It's important to understand that the immediacy of a disaster response can also be followed by a long term recovery period that leaves those affected by Mother Nature better off than they were before.

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Public Outcry Forces Chinese Dam Growth To Slow

Wall Street Journal | ANDREW BATSON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Three Gorges, Hydropower, Hydro-Electric Power, Dams, Eco-Friendly, Manwan, Sanmenxia, China, Dujiangyan, Chinese Dams, Business News

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 ...

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