BobL wrote:
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100 years ago there was a group of non-human aliens who built the superstructures in California that harnessed and transported water from the mountains, to people near the coast, and could maintain a population twice as large as existed then.
50 years ago, the population started approaching the capacity of what the non-human aliens built, and rather than expanding the superstructures, the people of California decided that they’d figure out a way to live with ever-tightening water.
It was their choice...and now they pay.
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The guys that did the documentaries about Hoover Dam and Grand Coulee Dam would not agree with you as to who built those hydropower emplacements.
They were began during the Great Depression.
They might look like aliens now seeing as what they did would be deemed impossible now.
Here in the state of Washington the governor and a senator (Inslee and Murray) just came out with some “research paper” on what an economic boom would be created by tearing down 4 to 6 dams along the Columbia river!
Their “calculations” show that increased revenues due to increased salmon fishing would offset the other losses.
What a couple of idiots. Farming, energy and ports would go away - but we would reclaim it in salmon dinners.