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<title>Chinese Dam Projects Criticized for Their Human Costs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Last year, Chinese officials celebrated the completion of the Three Gorges Dam by releasing a list of 10 world records. As in: The Three Gorges is the world


s biggest dam, biggest power plant and biggest consumer of dirt, stone, concrete and steel. Ever. Even the project


s official tally of 1.13 million displaced people made the list as record No. 10.]]></description>
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<title>260 Foot High Dam Would Create Canadian Lake</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a biggest-case-scenario, the dam would be 260 feet tall, creating an 18,000-acre reservoir that holds 1.7 million acre feet of water 


 with half of it in Canada. The reservoir would be larger than Lake Osoyoos which, five miles to the east, crosses the Canadian border north of Oroville.]]></description>
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<title>Dams : A Blessing or Curse?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The debate of whether dams are a blessing or a curse depends on which side of the fence you are. Over 48,000 dams are in operation worldwide for providing drinking water, irrigate land, produce Hydro-Electricity and prevent floods. Yet, today, over one billion people do not have access to safe drinking water. 

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<title>On the Snake River, Dam's Natural Allies Seem to Have a Change of Heart</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The tide is starting to turn, at long last.]]></description>
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<title>Musharraf's Mega Dam: A Fight against Time and the Water Level</title>
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<description><![CDATA[To solve the problem, Musharraf -- who is also Pakistan's military leader -- has announced plans to construct five massive dams before everything dries up. "We are damned to build dams," he says. The so-called Basha Diamer Dam west of the village of Chilas represents the cornerstone of Musharraf's dam policy.]]></description>
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<title>Breaching dams would save money, salmon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yet another study showing that removing 4 dams on the lower Snake River would save salmon and provide a boost to the economy.  Yet Idaho and Federal officials, in thrall to mining and shipping industries, continue to deny the facts.]]></description>
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<title>Seeking a Public Voice on China's 'Angry River'</title>
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