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In this March 2, 2020, hoto, farmer Ben DuVal; his wife, Erika, and their daughters, Hannah, 12, in purple, and Helena, 10, in gray, stand near a canal for collecting run-off water near their property in Tulelake, Calif. Ben DuVal inherited the farm from his grandfather, a World War II veteran who won the land by lottery, and worries that plan to demolish four dams on the lower Klamath River could set a precedent for dam removal that could eventually threaten his livelihood. The proposal to remove the dams on California's second-largest river to benefit threatened salmon has sharpened a decades-old dispute over who has the biggest claim to the river's life-giving waters. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

In this March 2, 2020, hoto, farmer Ben DuVal; his wife, Erika, and their daughters, Hannah, 12, in purple, and Helena, 10, in gray, stand near a canal for collecting run-off water near their property in Tulelake, Calif. Ben DuVal inherited the farm from his grandfather, a World War II veteran who won the land by lottery, and worries that plan to demolish four dams on the lower Klamath River could set a precedent for dam removal that could eventually threaten his livelihood…

March 29, 2020

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Largest US dam removal stirs debate over coveted West water
March 29, 2020 8:18 a.m.

Largest US dam removal stirs debate over coveted West water

KLAMATH, Calif. (AP) — The second-largest river in California has sustained Native American tribes with plentiful salmon for millennia, provided upstream farmers with irrigation water for generations and served as a haven for retirees who built dream homes along its banks.