1. Also, huge earthen dams can be built, though at heavy cost and environmental disruption. 2. And that means building massive locks that will draw water from new lakes formed by huge new dams. 3. Created in the aftermath of World War II, it started off financing huge dam, transportation and other infrastructure projects. 4. For now, that means lowering water levels behind the huge dams on the Missouri to make room for the inevitable. 5. It also promised to put more emphasis on human development programs rather than huge dams and power plants. 6. Levees were supplemented by huge dams constructed on most major rivers. 7. The Futaleufu begins in Argentina as the Rio Grande and comes out of a huge dam not far from the Chilean border. 8. Then the drought took the huge hydroelectric dams out of the equation and rationing became necessary. 9. Portugal also plans a huge dam on the Guadiana. 10. A well-known Indian environmentalist was arrested Monday as she traveled toward a town where protesters are trying to stop the construction of a huge dam. |