Rivers are the West’s largest source of clean energy. What happens when drought strikes?

Grist
By Syris ValentineApr 26, 2024, 4:15 am351 pts
In Washington, a dozen dams dot the Columbia River — that mighty waterway carved through the state by a sequence of prehistoric superfloods. Between those dams and the hundreds of others that plug the rivers and tributaries that lace the region, including California and Nevada, the Western United States…

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