Monday, March 03, 2008

West looking again at building new dams

Drought, Sprawling Growth Have Western States Studying Construction of More Mammoth Dams

NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
AP News

Mar 02, 2008 15:49 EST

The Western states' era of massive dam construction — which tamed rivers, swallowed towns, and created irrigated agriculture, cheap hydropower and environmental problems — effectively ended in 1966 with the completion of Glen Canyon Dam.

But the region's booming population and growing fears about climate change have governments once again studying construction of dams to capture more winter rain and spring snowmelt for use in dry summer months.

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