http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Thu, 23 May 2013 18:56:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/09/safety-be-dammed/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/09/safety-be-dammed/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:30:12 +0000 Benjamin Preston http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=17376 In the still hours just before midnight on March 12, 1928, thousands of people slumbered in the handful of agricultural communities nestled along the Santa Clara River in Ventura County, California. Tony Harnischfeger and his family slept quietly in a small house at the foot of the St. Francis Dam, a 195-foot high concrete gravity [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/09/safety-be-dammed/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/08/29/removing-dams-and-restoring-rivers/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/08/29/removing-dams-and-restoring-rivers/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:38:53 +0000 Renee Cho http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=17152 On September 17, 2011, the removal of two large hydroelectric dams on the Elwha River in Washington State, which have blocked migrating salmon from reaching their spawning grounds for almost 100 years, will begin. While this is the largest dam removal project in U.S. history, it is just one of several major dam removals planned [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/08/29/removing-dams-and-restoring-rivers/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/05/19/the-push-to-dam-china%e2%80%99s-rivers/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/05/19/the-push-to-dam-china%e2%80%99s-rivers/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 15:02:21 +0000 Renee Cho http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=14851 China already has half the world's large hydroelectric dams (25,800), but along the Yangtze River and its tributaries, 100 large dams are either being planned or built and 43 additional dams are in the works.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/05/19/the-push-to-dam-china%e2%80%99s-rivers/feed/ 5 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/08/18/water-and-energy-conflict-in-central-asia/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/08/18/water-and-energy-conflict-in-central-asia/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:53:49 +0000 Tobias Siegfried http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/water/?p=1076 ...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/08/18/water-and-energy-conflict-in-central-asia/feed/ 1