Grand Coulee Dam 70 Years Later: What Can We Learn?

Ortolano, Leonard; Cushing, Katherine Kao

doi:10.1080/0790062022000006880

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“…Overall demand stagnated and even dropped in the U.K. ( Figure 1). Greater awareness emerged about the (still hotly debated) effects and (often un- quantified) costs of hydraulic development, particularly large dams: extirpation of species (particularly fish); displacement of communities; flooding of cultural sites; contamination of water sources; disruption of ecological processes; and environmental degradation (WCD 2000;Graf 2001;Ortolano and Cushing 2002;Biswas 2004). Greater awareness emerged about the (still hotly debated) effects and (often un- quantified) costs of hydraulic development, particularly large dams: extirpation of species (particularly fish); displacement of communities; flooding of cultural sites; contamination of water sources; disruption of ecological processes; and environmental degradation (WCD 2000;Graf 2001;Ortolano and Cushing 2002;Biswas 2004).…”

Section: Water Supply: the State Hydraulic Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…K (1961-2000). quantified) costs of hydraulic development, particularly large dams: extirpation of species (particularly fish); displacement of communities; flooding of cultural sites; contamination of water sources; disruption of ecological processes; and environmental degradation (WCD 2000;Graf 2001;Ortolano and Cushing 2002;Biswas 2004). With threats to human health from water-borne diseases, such as typhoid, having been brought under control, concern began to focus on nonpoint sources of pollution and other contaminants, as evidenced by Clean Water legislation in the United States and similar legislation on water quality in the European Union.…”

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Neoliberalizing Nature? Market Environmentalism in Water Supply in England and Wales

Bakker

2005

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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The 1989 privatization of the water supply sector in England and Wales is a much-cited model of market environmentalism-the introduction of market institutions to natural resource management as a means of reconciling goals of efficiency and environmental conservation. Yet, more than a decade after privatization, the application of market mechanisms to water supply management is much more limited than had been expected. Drawing on recent geographical research on commodities, this article analyzes the reasons for this retrenchment of the market environmentalist project. I make three related claims: resource commodification is a contested, partial, and transient process; commodification is distinct from privatization; and fresh water is a particularly uncooperative commodity. To illustrate these claims, I explore how water's geography underpinned the failure of commodification initiatives in England and Wales. I focus specifically on contradictions faced by industry regulators, water companies, and the government when attempting to implement direct competition, universal metering, and full-cost pricing of water supply. The failure to resolve these contradictions was a critical driver in the reregulation of the water supply industry and in the overall trend toward improvement in environmental and drinking water quality, a finding that underpins my closing argument-that neoliberalization is implicated in processes of reregulation that rescript the entitlements of both humans and nonhumans, with outcomes that are not necessarily negative for what we conventionally delimit as the environment.

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Section: Water Supply: the State Hydraulic Modelmentioning

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Section: Water Supply: the State Hydraulic Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neoliberalizing Nature? Market Environmentalism in Water Supply in England and Wales

Bakker

2005

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

524

401

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“…What effect will the realization that those federal reserved water rights implicit in tribal treaty records established water rights prior to nearly all established and current water uses have on future allocations? Add to the mix the newly evolved value of in-stream fl ow, which necessitates leaving some water in the stream rather than allocating every drop of a river, and the picture changes again (Rodgers 1993;Ellis 1996;Neuman 1998;Ortolono 2000Ortolono , 2002.…”

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The Columbia Basin Project: Seventy-Five Years Later

Bloodworth¹,

White²

2008

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Th e Columbia Basin Project (CBP) is the largest comprehensive reclamation project in the United States. An intertwined system of water diversion, capture, storage, movement, and use for hydroelectric production and irrigation, made famous by the capstone of Grand Coulee Dam, the CBP completely transformed the arid environment of central Washington and the economy of the Pacifi c Northwest (PNW). As this project stretches now into 75 years of plans, actions, reactions, and potential future actions, there is a surprisingly small amount of literature examining this project and its far-reaching implications. Originally planned as a reclamation project, the CBP morphed over time as values and priorities changed; never achieving completion, approximately two-thirds of the original planned project acreage is currently irrigated, but with escalating ecologic and economic implications. Th e most obvious ecologic implication has fi xated debates about development in the Pacifi c Northwest, and that is the near annihilation of historic salmon runs due to dam construction. As this question (salmon versus dams) consumes most scholarly literature related to the CBP, we chose instead to examine everything except ecologic implications. Th is article reviews the existing literature on the CBP from several fi elds, noting that many economic, social, legal, policy, and agricultural questions remain unanswered aft er 75 years. Th ose unanswered questions become particularly important in light of recent discussions within Washington State concerning completing the CBP, thus potentially increasing the size of irrigated lands by one-third in the Columbia Basin Project.

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“…Building new hydropower stations can ease the energy shortage problem, but ecological environment in the area will undergo significant changes after the construction of them (Veltrop, 1998;Ortolano et al, 2002;Zhao et al, 2006;Dong, 2006). To monitor, analyze and evaluate these changes is one of the premises for the construction of the hydropower stations to pass the approval of the government (OECD, 1996), and the environmental impact assessment now becomes more important when hydropower station construction attracts fierce debates on its merits and demerits both at home and abroad, in which biomass loss estimation is one of the important jobs.…”

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Vegetation Biomass Estimation Based on CBERS Data: A Case Study of the Submerged Area of Angu Reservoir

Wang

Liu

Linqing

2010

2010 International Conference on Management and Service Science

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The estimation and distribution of the vegetation biomass in submerged area of Angu Reservoir， Sichuan Province, based on CBERS data acquired in 2006 was researched. In order to select the optimum image characteristic data, correlative analysis were calculated among the biomass field sampling data, CBERS band 1-band 4 data and the NDVI data. The results show that field sampling data is best relative to band 4 data, and the correlation coefficients to aquatic vegetation and terrestrial vegetation were 0.703 and 0.678 respectively. Therefore, linear regression models were established between the field sampling data and band 4 data to estimate the total biomass of the Angu Reservoir area. The modeling results shows that the biomass of aquatic vegetation and terrestrial vegetation in the area were 1.15×10 8 kg and 0.99×10 8 kg respectively. And the biomass distribution map was drawn. The study shows that there are many advantages to apply CBERS image to biomass investigation over the traditional methods.

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Grand Coulee Dam 70 Years Later: What Can We Learn?

Cited by 22 publications

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Neoliberalizing Nature? Market Environmentalism in Water Supply in England and Wales

Neoliberalizing Nature? Market Environmentalism in Water Supply in England and Wales

The Columbia Basin Project: Seventy-Five Years Later

Vegetation Biomass Estimation Based on CBERS Data: A Case Study of the Submerged Area of Angu Reservoir

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