{"id":509,"date":"2009-09-21T05:51:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T13:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2009-09-21T05:51:32","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T13:51:32","slug":"calling-katie-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/21\/calling-katie-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"calling Katie Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In another blow against dams (wishful thinking, a la Seldom Seen Smith), the <em>BBC<\/em> reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8266500.stm\">&#8220;Damming and diverting rivers means that much less sediment now reaches many delta areas, while extraction of gas and groundwater also lowers the land.&#8221;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Which means? &#8220;About half a billion people live in these regions&#8221; says the journal <em>Nature Geoscience<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Think Hurricane Katrina and the picture becomes a bit more poignant. Now multiply by a few orders of magnitude and what we have here is (more) damning evidence against dams. <\/p>\n<p>What the article doesn&#8217;t explain is the injury to aquatic species who find dams little more than a pain in the head, literally. Salmon and sturgeon come to mind, for starters. It&#8217;s kind of hard to migrate upstream when a plug of concrete and rebar stand in the current. <\/p>\n<p>And then &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glencanyon.org\/\">there&#8217;s Glen Canyon Dam<\/a>&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another blow against dams (wishful thinking, a la Seldom Seen Smith), the BBC reports that &#8220;Damming and diverting rivers means that much less sediment now reaches many delta areas, while extraction of gas and groundwater also lowers the land.&#8221; Which means? &#8220;About half a billion people live in these regions&#8221; says the journal Nature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}