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There are often better, cheaper, less-destructive alternatives to building a large dam, whether to meet energy or water needs, or to reduce the impacts from floods. These solutions - from small-scale,...
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Dam Removal
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New Orleans under water, 2005. Photo: FEMAFloods are the most destructive, most frequent and most costly natural disasters on earth. Flood damages have soared in recent decades, despite the expenditure...
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Rio Pascua, PatagoniaA river's flow is its heartbeat. Freshwater plants and animals have evolved with, and intimately depend upon, natural patterns of hydrological variability. Naturally high and low...
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Take Action: Power 4 People!
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