Sentence examples for remove dams from inspiring English sources

And that is whether or not we remove dams that produce hydroelectric energy.

The best sites have all been taken, and building is too dear; the fashion now is to remove dams.

A tentative agreement has been reached among farmers, native tribes and a power company to remove dams on California's Klamath River, the site of a huge fish kill several years ago attributed mainly to low water flows caused by dams.

Although this all sounds reasonable, it can seem strange that the Nature Conservancy is supporting a very large intervention in a delicate water system, especially given that, in the States, it is celebrated for its efforts to remove dams.

The developments on the Naugatuck are an example of a movement sweeping the country to remove dams and allow rivers to return to their natural flows, and there have been some amazing success stories.

"The removal of one dam may not seem like a lot, but restoration won't happen overnight, just like the fragmentation of the river system didn't happen overnight," said Laura Wildman, regional coordinator for American Rivers, a conservation group in Washington working to remove dams around the country.

I'm against removing dams in the Northwest.

Local governments removed dams, which trapped pollution and impeded fish migration.

Other factors include the bitter contentiousness over proposals to help endangered salmon by removing dams on the Snake River in eastern Washington.

The Obama plan leaves open as "a last resort" the possibility of removing dams if certain fish populations decline to historic lows, but even then, critics say, the decision would depend on a multiyear study of whether removing dams would improve salmon populations.

In the West, dams have come down on the Elwha and White Salmon Rivers in Washington, and there have been discussions about removing dams on the Klamath near the California-Oregon border and on the lower Snake River in Washington.