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

12.   In the United States, new dams meet with resistance on environmental and safety grounds.

13.   Instead of spending stimulus money on new dams, he asks, why not put people to work planting trees instead?

14.   Other environmentalists think the willingness to consider new dams is a slippery slope.

15.   Slowing economies from Japan to Indonesia are reducing demand as nations halt construction of new dams, railroads and factories.

16.   The new dam at Chalillo, they said, would give them enough water to power the Mollejon generators through several months of the dry season.

17.   The water authority there proposed, instead, a new dam on the Carmel River, but that plan has met with even more opposition.

18.   They add that Mexican power is still cheaper during off-peak hours, regardless of whether a new dam were built.

19.   Water management strategies may be more cost effective than building a new dam, he said.

20.   Plans for new dams were shelved.