Tag: Dams

  • Nation & World

    Sparking a national debate

    Environmental protection is not a goal to achieve but a task to be undertaken by one generation and handed to the next, Gina McCarthy, the former EPA administrator and current director of Harvard’s Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, told the Gazette in an Earth Day interview.

    10 minutes
    A 1967 photograph, showing old cars used as rip-rap along the banks of the Cuyahoga to protect it from erosion is held in front of the river decades later.
  • Nation & World

    Seeking to connect on water issues

    The U.S. lacks a national water policy, resulting in pushing and pulling by a wide array of competing interests in managing the nation’s water supply, said experts at a Radcliffe symposium.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    In Pakistan, controlling water is key

    Pakistan’s long-term water security requires institutional renewal and new infrastructure, including new dams, on the Indus River.

    7 minutes