1.   Instead of building new dams or nuclear plants, the region promoted energy efficiency, in everything from residential building codes to industrial plants.

2.   Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., likened the long-standing policy of building dams and levees to putting a belt on instead of losing weight.

3.   Silver questioned why any foreign government would listen to the United States, since the Bureau of Reclamation has destroyed so much habitat by building dams in this country.

4.   Squirrels are storing nuts, trees are shedding leaves, beavers are building dams and homeowners are washing storm windows.

5.   The neglect of downstream dikes, Lu and other critics say, reflects a bias toward building dams and reservoirs to battle floods despite their inherently limited capacity.

6.   The money has come from the U.S. Agency for International Development, better known for building dams and roads than creating bridges to political opponents of authoritarian leaders.

7.   The one idea that survived was the U.S. Reclamation Service, which was charged with building dams to store water for dry years and control flooding in wet ones.

8.   They also may consider building dams to block them, she said.

9.   Fights have already broken out between villages over scarce water sources, with some building dams to hoard streams.

10.   Let all those who want relief come and work in building dams and roads.