| Dam-building era may not be over in West |
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The Western states' era of massive dam construction — which tamed rivers, swallowed towns and created irrigated agriculture, cheap hydropower and environmental problems — effectively ended in 1966 with the completion of Glen Canyon Dam on the Arizona-Utah border. Read more... |
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| Last Updated ( Tuesday, 04 March 2008 ) |
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