ing shape in America's vast desert Southwest, where water is anything but a free flowing commodity.
But
hey - Los Angeles needs more power to boot up those 50 inch plasma
screens, hot tubs, video games, cell phones, backyard grills, and a
plethora of electric vibrators lurking in millions of bedside tables,
spread-eagled across the lovely Valley.
What would Hayduke do?
Calling Katie Lee
In
another blow against dams (wishful thinking, a la Seldom Seen Smith),
the BBC reports that "Damming and diverting rivers means that much less
sediment now reaches many delta areas, while extraction of gas and
groundwater also lowers the land."
Which means? "About half a billion people live in these regions" says the journal Nature Geoscience.
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.
What
the article doesn'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's kind of hard to migrate
upstream when a plug of concrete and rebar stand in the current.
And then - there's Glen Canyon Dam.......
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