Tag: dams
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The Dam Issue
by Kathleen Marquardt, American Policy Center, ©2025 (Jul. 17, 2025) — Over 30 years ago, this was in mid ‘90s, – pre-internet – meetings were held in Western Montana, Idaho, Eastern Washington, and Oregon. These were consensus meetings – some of the earliest after the Rio Accord establishing Agenda 21/Sustainable Development was signed onto by over…
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Build More Dams
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2022 (May 12, 2022) — Since the days of Joseph in ancient Egypt, droughts have periodically rationed water and food supplies for humans and wildlife. Sensible peoples store water, but it is about 40 years since Australians built a big dam – young Aussie engineers have no…
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Covid will now Empty the Dams
“SLASH RED AND GREEN TAPE” by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2020 (Jun. 5, 2020) — To download this lead article with all images click: https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/washing-hands.pdf “Wash your hands as often as possible” says Canberra’s Covid Chief. This could flush away 25 litres of water per person per day. Suppose ten million obedient…
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Build More Dams Day
“WITH GUARANTEED MONEY AND START DATES” by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2020 (Mar. 22, 2020) — 24 million Australians are told to wash their hands thoroughly several times a day. Imagine the water demand – say 25 litres per person per day just for hand washing, taking total household usage to at…
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Flooding Ourselves with Valuable Water
“WE KNOW HOW TO STOP THESE FLOODS” by David Wojick, Ph.D., CFACT, 2019 (Jun. 12, 2019) — Our National Environmental Policy is to let nature take its course and that is exactly what is happening with this catastrophic flooding. Blame Congress, not climate change. The dams that would stop this flooding were designed in the…
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Australia’s Growing Dam Crisis
“DELAYED FOR DECADES” by Viv Forbes, ©2019, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club (Jun. 3, 2019) — “The food we eat, the water we drink and the power we use for most of our endeavours, are available only because previous generations invested their knowhow and money for the future. It is time this generation did the…
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Here’s the Dam Deal: Build More Hydropower Dams
“HYDRO IS THE WAY TO GO” by David Wojick, Ph.D., ©2019, CFACT (Apr. 20, 2019) — This article is the third in my series about America’s need for dams. The first was about adding hydropower to existing unpowered dams. The second explained the need to finish the U.S. flood (and drought) control program. The present…
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Here’s the Dam Deal: Build More Dams
“GREEN TYRANNY” by David Wojick, Ph.D., ©2019, CFACT (Apr. 15, 2019) — “Green Insanity Is Flooding Towns and Destroying Lives” is an important article in American Thinker by columnist Joe Herring. His article is about perverse green practices in the operation of America’s existing system of flood control dams, but it also applies to the…