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WILD RIVER NEWS: What Can We Learn From the Nepal Disaster? (And, the Wild Poudre River will be 40 years old!)

WILD RIVER NEWS: What Can We Learn From the Nepal Disaster? (And, the Wild Poudre River will be 40 years old!) - Save The World's Rivers Hi Friends of Wild Rivers, We have three great WILD RIVER NEWS items — Take a Look! The Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) in Nepal was a disaster that was predicted. What can we learn from it? Are there answers moving forward? I’m delighted to have co-written a response to those exact questions...

Another dead River, killed by a dam.

Photos: Dolores River and McPhee Reservoir, September 2026 - The Water Desk This page in our free multimedia library features photos of the Dolores River and McPhee Reservoir in southwest Colorado.

The poor, forgotten, dead Gila River:

"The Gila did not dry up by accident. It was drained on purpose, one dam and canal at a time."

The Colorado River Tributary That No Longer Reaches It The Colorado River's largest tributary, the Gila, is so heavily dammed and diverted that it no longer reaches the Colorado, except during rare desert floods.

Now we're talking!

At the UN, Panama Champions a Universal Declaration on the Rights of Nature - Inside Climate News Panama’s center-right president called on world leaders to adopt a new non-binding treaty, building on his nation’s own national rights of nature laws.

"The salmon remembered." -- Amy Bowers Cordalis

Why we blew up four dams — and saved a river For thousands of years, the Klamath River in Northern California was home to one of the continent’s great salmon runs, creating abundance for the native Yurok Tribe … until a series of dams and a century of extraction nearly destroyed it. Indigenous advocate Amy Bowers Cordalis helped lead the f...

PRESS RELEASE: Using Anthropic’s Claude, Save The World’s Rivers Engages To Protect Waterways Across the American Southwest

“As the dam-building industry and permitting agencies are further cloaked behind complex AI-powered models that marginalize public transparency and scrutiny, we are trying to use AI to pull back the curtain and protect the public’s interest,” -- Gary Wockner, director, Save The World's Rivers

Read here: https://savetheworldsrivers.org/press-release-using-anthropics-claude-save-the-worlds-rivers-engages-to-protect-waterways-across-the-american-southwest/

We are THRILLED to see this posted! Hopefully, some good will come from this tragedy.

Read here: https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/for-wild-rivers-like-the-karnali-nepals-disaster-is-a-warning-and-an-answer-commentary/

Mongabay.com

That's what we're talking about.

Nature Gets Legal Rights; The Supreme Court Isn't So Supreme Words from populist author, public speaker, and radio commentator Jim Hightower.

If AI is being used by dam builders to destroy rivers across the planet, is it OK to use AI to DEFEND RIVERS? (more coming on this)

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Artificial Intelligence: Is it being used to help destroy rivers in the U.S. and across the planet? - Save The World's Rivers Hi River-Loving Friends, Unfortunately, the use of Artificial Intelligence is rapidly increasing in the fields of dam building, dam management, and dam permitting in the U.S. and abroad. Here’s a quick summary article posted in International Water and Power Magazine: “AI in dam engineering: smar...

How many acres of solar panels and batteries would it take to replace the hydropower at Glen Canyon Dam?

Take a read: https://savethecolorado.org/can-solar-farms-and-batteries-replace-glen-canyon-dams-electricity/

More coming on this!!

Can Solar Farms and Batteries Replace Glen Canyon Dam's Electricity? - Save the Colorado Hi Friends of the Colorado River, Jonathon Thompson posted a provocative story on his Land Desk Substack recently about how the electricity produced at Glen Canyon Dam was dwindling due to low water levels in Powell Reservoir. Thompson further analyzed where the electricity goes on the grid and how....