The consequences of water shortages are playing out now in swaths of the American West, where an expansive, decades-long drought is forcing drastic cuts in hydroelectric power generation.
A husband-wife team of entrepreneurs are using a once-abandoned hydroelectric station to feed the power grid and keep their artificial-intelligence enterprise humming.
Activists are concerned that a proposed buyout of the company that owns Green Mountain Power and Vermont Gas would allow the mega Canadian power company to have too much influence in Vermont.
UNESCO praised Canada for measures it has taken to stop the deterioration of Wood Buffalo National Park but has expressed concern about impacts piling up from hydro development in British Columbia and dozens of oilsands projects in Alberta.
At an inquiry into mismanagement of the hydro dam — called 'the biggest economic mistake in Newfoundland and Labrador's history' — citizens are finally able to demand answers.
Presidents in Peru and Brazil, and construction firm Odebrecht, schemed to build 22 Marañón River dams; the people and the law defeated them; today the river flows free.
