Frances Beinecke

When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.

American Activist

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

American Leader

Sigmund Freud

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Austrian Psychologist

Henry Ford

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

American Businessman

Jerry Costello

We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports.

American Politician

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.

Stephen Ambrose

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

American Historian

Kay Kay Menon

I feel the dams of emotions open up more easily when one is acting.

Indian Actor

Arthur Golden

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

American Writer

Duke of Wellington

British Public Servant

Dams control water levels, often creating reservoirs for water supply or irrigation.

Water Management

Dams are critical in hydroelectric systems, using water flow to generate electricity.

Power Generation

While useful, dams can disrupt ecosystems and impact wildlife habitats.

Environmental Impact

To dam a river means to intentionally block it, often for irrigation or power.

Controlling Rivers

Dams can prevent floods by controlling the release of water downstream.

Flood Prevention

In animal breeding, a dam is the mother, important for understanding genetics.

Animal Breeding

Knowing the dam gives insight into an animal's pedigree and potential traits.

Pedigree Significance

Often used metaphorically, it represents something that prevents progress.

Metaphorical Barrier

Identify 'dams' in processes to find ways to overcome challenges or improve efficiency.

Problem Solving

 environments that flow of material is incredibly important technologically and building dams disrupts that but there's another aspect rivers in terms of flow back upstream that most people don't tend to think about and in the northwest that's greatly mediated by salmon because when salmon leave their native

Remove the Dams to Save...

 which controlled the entire Yellow River and had the ability to bring hundreds of thousands of people together to build dams and canals and regulate the river and prevent the worst floods and droughts and raise the level of prosperity for everybody.

Nationalism vs....

 for an arch-gravity dam. This design curves upstream, using the force of oncoming water to push the structure into its supports— in this case, the canyon walls. Arch dams have been built since ancient times, but never on such a massive scale.

Blood, concrete, and...

 thought processes or if it is just going on blind instinct but they really do not know how to engineer a landscape the whole reason they build the dams is to create a certain depth of water if this is a deep river behind us

Wild Beavers Return...

 like the breaking of a dam the glaciers upstream will accelerate 2 to 3 4 times their normal speed that ice gets funneled directly into the ocean and raises sea level this is the crane glacier which used to flow into the

The warning sounds of a...

 in this rare night footage a giant salamander struggles back upstream after becoming trapped in a dam spillway when the banks of rivers are covered in concrete for flood control the salamanders habitat is destroyed so

Giant Japanese...

 electrons in this rare night footage giant salamander struggles back upstream after becoming trapped in a dam spillway when the banks of rivers are covered in concrete for flood control the

Giant Salamander As Big...

 Months of therapy have rebuilt his confidence. Today, he faces a big challenge. We're going down to the big dam and trying to help him get over his fear of water. Come on, let's go see.

Elephants Being...

 developed a deep-rooted fear of water months of therapy have rebuilt his confidence today he faces a big challenge we're going down to the big dam and trying to help him get over his

The Cutest Elephant...

 So important is their dam to them, that if they detect the slightest leak, usually by hearing the sound of trickling water,