World of Change: Water Level in Lake Powell

The 21st century has not been kind to the water levels in Lake Powell.

This series of images, taken by NASA’s Landsat satellites from 1999 to 2015, document the change.

LINK (via: Gizmodo)

Meanwhile further downstream.

Lake Mead is just six inces from the level that triggers cutbacks in deliveries for the three lower basin states – Arizona, Nevada and California.

LINK (via:High Country News)

DamNation – Help stop Ishiki Dam in Japan

Photo: Takayuki Tsujii

There are currently over 80 dams being planned right now in Japan. Among those, the Ishiki Dam being planned for construction in Nagasaki prefecture’s Kawatana-cho poses serious environmental, economic and human rights concerns.

LINK (via: The Cleanest Line)

You can TAKE ACTION HERE.

After 15 Years, Land Trust Still Pushing For Removal Of East Burke Dam

As spring returns, controversy swirls over a dam in East Burke Vermont. The land trust that owns the dam wants to tear it down. But other residents see the dam as an historic buttress to the local economy.

LINK (via: Vermont Public Radio)

DamNation Petition Delivery to the White House – Washington state residents please take action

On Wednesday, January 28, a small team representing activists, moviegoers, customers and the entire Patagonia family delivered a petition containing more than 70,000 signatures—the online petition and postcards combined—to President Obama and his top environmental advisers. Created in conjunction with the release of DamNation, the petition brought together activist voices from all 50 United States and 60 countries around the world asking President Obama to crack down on deadbeat dams—starting by finding a path to remove four harmful dams on one of the nation’s most important salmon rivers, the lower Snake, and begin the biggest watershed restoration project in history.

Check out some more photos from the DamNation petition delivery trip:

Washington state residents: Ask Senators Cantwell and Murray to help remove four deadbeat dams on the lower Snake River.

More than 70,000 people from all over the world signed the petition asking President Obama to remove the dams. But the feds want to see support from the leadership of Washington state. A phone call from you to Senators Cantwell (206-220-6400) and Murray (206-553-5545) is the most powerful way to get that support.

LINK (via:The Cleanest Line)

"I'll probably get fired for what I'm about to tell you, but these dams are a travesty"

The Boise Weekly profiles retired US Army Corp  Civil Engineer Jim Waddell who had a featured role in the film DamNation.

During his 35-year career with the Army Corps of Engineers as a civil engineer, Jim Waddell spent some of his time studying the four Lower Snake River dams bordering Idaho and Washington in eastern Washington. He concluded the dams are an economic sham and recommended the Corps breach the dams back in 2002.

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Evans Creek dams on track for removal this summer

Two of Oregon's worst wild fish barriers are on track to be jettisoned from Evans Creek this summer under a plan to open as much as 70 miles of prime spawning habitat for the Rogue River Basin's wild salmon and steelhead.

Project managers last week garnered a key state fish-passage permit that will help push other state and federal permits forward for removing the crumbling and abandoned Fielder and Wimer dams, which impede migrating wild salmon, including threatened wild coho.

LINK (via:The Mail Tribune)