dam
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It raised the height of a dam to double its storage, built the desalination plant and acquired rights to a trove of conserved Colorado River water from a desert farming district.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
One approach, he said, could be for dam operators to change when and how much they lower reservoir levels, which can affect how much of the gases escape.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
For Tellico Dam, the committee denied the exception, but Congress later cleared the way for the dam to be completed.
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026
It was structural the way a dam is structural — until someone finds a way around it.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
I put on a good-sized sinker and dropped into the white water close to the edge of the timbers of the dam.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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