Por: Los Angeles Times Nation March 10, 2023
With back-to-back storms to hit California in the coming days, state officials are scrambling to make strategic releases from key reservoirs in hopes of preventing a repeat of the deadly flooding that killed nearly two dozen people in January. At least 10 rivers are forecast to overflow from the incoming Pineapple Express storm, which is expected to drop warm, heavy, snow-melting rain as it moves from the Central Coast toward the southern Sierra... + full article
Los Angeles Times USA Nation February 18, 2023
The desiccation of the Colorado River has left Lake Powell, the country’s second-largest reservoir, at just 23% of capacity, its lowest level since it was filled in the 1960s. With the reservoir now just 32 feet away from minimum power pool — the point at which Glen Canyon... + más
Maine Voices: Kennebec River dam debate hijacked by red herring | Portland Press Herald
Why was the Hoover Dam built? | Newsweek
Newsweek USA Tech February 18, 2023
The Hoover Dam, standing 726.4 feet tall, is one of the greatest feats of American engineering—and one of its most important. The dam formed Lake Mead, the largest man-made reservoir in the U.S., which irrigates 1,500,000 acres of land and provides water to over 16,000,000... + más
Is Lake Mead filling back up? | Newsweek
Newsweek USA Tech February 14, 2023
The Hoover Dam is the most-famous such example in North America, and for good reason. Built between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression, the project was truly a feat of engineering for the time.Standing 726 feet high, and 1,244 feet long, the dam—in the Black Canyon of... + más
What happens if Lake Mead hits dead pool and Hoover Dam stops working? | Newsweek
Los Angeles Times USA Nation January 24, 2023
Now that the shock of a series of January storms has worn off, Los Angeles County officials face a herculean chore: Five reservoirs along south-facing San Gabriel Mountain slopes are filled with so much debris and soupy mud that they pose a flood risk to the communities below.... + más
The platypus—God's little joke—may be killed off by river dams | Newsweek
Op-Ed: An epic victory in the battle for free-flowing rivers | Los Angeles Times
Newsweek USA Life November 08, 2022
K-Pop band TREASURE has lost two of its members, Bang Ye Dam and Mashiho.The group's record label, YG Entertainment, announced on Tuesday, November 8 that the two members had terminated their exclusive contracts with the company.Why Are Bang Ye Dam and Mashiho Leaving... + más
Sonic Frontiers: How to farm Treasure Tokens | Newsweek
Newsweek USA World November 02, 2022
Russian troops are reportedly intimidating Ukrainian civilians into evacuating by threatening to blow up a hydroelectric dam on the Dnipro River, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday.The occupiers continue to forcibly relocate the civilian population in the temporarily occupied... + más
Kherson flooding would be like dropping 'atomic bomb' if Putin strikes dam | Newsweek
Portland Press Herald USA Opinion September 26, 2022
There has been a fair amount of news in Maine lately about dams on the Kennebec River; how fish can be restored to the upper river, and the fear of the impact removing the Shawmut Dam would have . The issue of the removal of the Shawmut Dam and impacts on the Sappi mill has been... + más
50 years after the Clean Water Act, the Androscoggin River has changed dramatically | Portland Press Herald
Summit customers will see bills double as natural gas supply costs more | Portland Press Herald
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