Dams Quotes
The paper asked Congress to fund the next phase of the Grand Coulee Dam explaining that when completed it would do the work of 2 million wild horses.
Ethiopia was constructing on the Blue Nile, the biggest hydroelectric dam in Africa,. The water supply to Egypt is possibly likely to be somewhat reduced. Since Egypt’s 85 million people get 97 percent of their fresh water from the Nile, this has become a major issue in Egypt. Of course when Egypt constructed the Aswan Dam they, they were not concerned by any environmental effects it might have on other nations,
On New Year’s Day Floods began and in 1917 over 1 million acres of water soon were held in check by the levees. In April of 1918 the first Federal Levee at Cabin Teel breached. Nearly 1 million people had lost their homes. 325,000 people were made refugees in the worst Mississippi floods in recorded history. Not a year had elapsed from the time the system was declared safe. The Corps of Engineers was and is highly politicized in its decision making and operations and as such, cannot be relied upon as a professional engineering group despite several excellent engineers on their staff.
Herbert Hoover and the Republicans would not build the Dam. Their vision was jack rabbits. See {639126}. FDR’s was families and built the dam as a part of the New Deal, and he was right. The large scale of the dam (the largest power producer in the U. S.) produced inexpensive power that attracted businesses, agriculture, and people and the Dam became an economic development growth engine for the entire region.
Senator Frank Church had explained his opposition to the President's Vietnam policy by showing him an article by the well known columnist Walter Lippmann.
Later painted on Hetch Hetchy Dam in Yosemite National Park in 1987 by protesters
