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Federal officials have said they want to keep Lake Powell well above a point where water could pass downstream only through Glen Canyon Dam’s low-level bypass tubes.

Just as important, Kirk sensed and exploited the complacency and weakness of liberal culture, and understood, in the cliché of our age, that politics is a downstream subsidiary.

Several parts of northern India and Pakistan, which are downstream from the rivers originating in the Himalayas, have seen devastating floods even when there were no cloudbursts or significant rainfall.

The dam's construction on a Nile tributary, which provides most of that great river's water, was controversial with downstream countries.

When India's reservoirs are overwhelmed, the release of water can cause heavy flooding downstream - which is happening across swathes of Pakistan's Punjab, officials say.