Local Waters

Vandana Shivas book ” Water Wars” written 24 years ago lists with dismay, the bad effects socially and ecologically , of the big dams around the world and the imposition of Big Government removing thousands  of  small farmer villages and that way of life, often placing sweet country people where they die or have to…

The flood control reservoirs around the Willamette Valley are drawn down for winter to a low water depth river pond in the bottoms. This is so they can catch the spring melt runoff of snow and the Willsmette Valley, now quite populated with houses,will not be flooded. Its water management by the US Army Corps…