How much for that dam? In the developing world, people and their lands pay a high price for harnessing the power of water.(Book Review) From: OnEarth | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2005 Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

DEEP WATER

The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment

BY JACQUES LESLIE

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 352 pp., $25

We forget now that the American environmental movement was born not in reaction to smog or to dirty water, but to dams. That John Muir, the great conservationist of the first half of the twentieth century, founded the Sierra Club to fight the dam at Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy, and that David Brower, Muir's successor, built the club into the prototype of modern activism in the struggles over dams at Dinosaur National Monument, Glen ...

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