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...their faith directs. But after thousands of holy men threatened to boycott the six-week festival - one of the largest gatherings in the world - while others said they would commit the ritual suicide "jal samadhi" in protest, officials in India flushed the river with water from an upstream dam. Here's how other waterways have fared since their filthy conditions were plunged into the spotlight...
...After the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, the river, which flows near the reactor, became radioactive. With toxic silt still flowing downstream in the Pripyat, which is some 441 miles long, a dam on the left bank has been the only effective countermeasure, and dredging remains dangerous...
When the Massachusetts legislature passed an initiative to guarantee healthcare to almost all of the state’s uninsured, it knocked the first crack into the dam holding America back from universal healthcare. This week, California’s governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, set the stage for the bulldozing of that dam by proposing to grant health coverage to all 6.5 million Californians who currently lack it. As with past Schwarzenegger acts, this venture has caught the public eye, and we hope it stimulates further national and state debate on how to fix the broken healthcare system...
...fast, Aquaman. Regulators and environmentalists want a long look at dam-free hydro. Krouse knows that what he calls the "sushi problem"--turbines slashing passing fish--will be a big concern. He says fish whacks will be minimal...
...Hastings project underscores the potential for inland dam-free hydropower--30,000 MW, roughly 10% of existing U.S. coal-burner capacity, according to U.S. Department of Energy estimates. The green lobby, which fights dams, is not yet sure what to make of dam-free hydro, but it is wary. True, you can pull a turbine out of the water if things go badly--but "you don't just put one turbine in the water," says Robbin Marks of American Rivers. "To generate a fair amount of electricity, you have to put in hundreds. We really don't know what...