There is not enough of it in the reservoirs banking the three hydro-electric dams that supply Kabul with power.
In the past two months there has been serious talk about tearing out at least three Snake dams, dams that have had devastating effects on a once-flourishing fishery.
This is a formidable lobby in the Pacific north-west, which has been defined to a remarkable degree by 16 huge dams that blockade the Columbia river and its principal tributary, the Snake.
The Columbia River is punctuated by 14 huge dams that still generate electricity for the millions who live along its watershed, and as the region shifts to other sources of renewable energy, it's giving birth to new giants awe-inspiring structures that will stare down at us for centuries.
Opponents of the Tokushima dam argue that dams of similar design elsewhere have destroyed river habitats, blocking the flow of water and leading to an accumulation of sludge on the river bed.
Having bickered for decades over their rights to the Krishna river, AP and upstream Maharashtra and Karnataka are now furiously building dams and diversions that the river might not support even in flood.
They're not going to be make-work jobs, but jobs doing the work that America desperately needs done, jobs rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, repairing our dangerously deficient dams and levees so that we don't face another Katrina.
There were unconfirmed reports that local officials allowed dams to be opened, out of concern that they might not hold.
Sarah Johnson, a small dams expert for Trout Unlimited, estimates that 25 percent of all dams in the United States are outdated.
International Rivers, a lobby that tries to save rivers from dams it says are destructive, admits that the Chinese are much greener these days.
Environmentalists, however, say that the dams will make lakes in Kenya run dry.
In James Holland's recent book, Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the Dams, he states that "it is time to put the record straight".
River tribes are worried that the dams will block water ways and dry up the river beds they depend on for travel and fishing.
But a cynic might further conclude that to the extent that upriver dams smooth a flow's seasonal extremes, China's upriver projects actually make ones in downstream countries more feasible, too.
From my perspective, providing all of you additional resources to rebuild roads and bridges and levees and dams ... that will enhance the quality of life of your state, but also make it more economically competitive -- that's not wasteful.
They build the roads, bridges, dams, ports and railways that China needs to sustain its rapid economic growth.
But if the Elwha dams come out, and that successfully restores salmon runs, it could open the floodgates for similar projects.
Even so, political instability, graft and incompetence have meant that many African dams, once built, have failed to produce what was promised.
Federal and independent studies have shown that removing four dams on the lower Snake River in Washington state is the best option for saving Snake River salmon.
Officials point out that opponents of the dams have failed to propose a feasible alternative.
He suggested directly to neighbours who had similar seasonal watercourses near their homes that they try building dams themselves and he advised them how to do so.
Among these, Brazil is exceptional in that many of its dams also serve to control river levels and provide irrigation, thus making them hard to regulate satisfactorily if privatised.
Of the thousands of power engineers and bureaucrats India pay salary for, not one among them insisted that silt removal from dams is mandatory and without doing it, power generation cannot go on.
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Throughout the 20th century, the federal government invested in dams, transportation infrastructure and military installations that facilitated economic expansion and the emergence of new private industries.
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The project would involve the building of five dams on two fast-flowing rivers that run into the Pacific - two on the river Baker, and three on the river Pascua.
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And there is no indication that the reason why decaying dams are found at each point where the town brook falls ten feet is because there used to be a dozen factories on its banks using the gravity power of falling water to turn out a variety of industrial products.
If General Musharraf wants the dams built, he should start by increasing that number.
Lohi and his colleagues developed a genetic test for breeders to test their sires and dams for the mutation in order to ensure that two carriers aren't allowed to mate and have puppies.
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However, to build the dams often cause irreversible environmental damage despite the fact that the mills do not emit harmful CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.
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That includes obvious things like roads and dams, but also spending on wars and homeland security if those investments make us safer over the long run.
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