In the United States, more than 2 million dams and other barriers block fish from migrating upstream to spawn as a result, many fish populations have declined. For example, Atlantic salmon used to be...
Category: Dams
Most people tend to view dams as built to last forever but dams have a lifespan they fill with sediment, or they outlive their usefulness, or they’re removed for environmental reasons this is the...
The great Colorado River, and subsequently its reservoirs, are not what they once were because the basin states have been affected by a megadrought that has gripped the southwest of the U.S. for two...
Over the last decade or more a lot of speculation has been talked about the drought-ridden reservoirs of Lake Meade fed by the Colorado River system in Southwestern states of America as the Lake...
Storms of rain and snow have hit California particularly badly in recent months, and have spread into neighboring states like Nevada where reservoirs like Lake Mead rely on seasonal snowmelt and...
The Sacramento River is a major source of water for the millions of residents in the state and other states through which the river passes it's well known for four distinct runs of Chinook salmon:...