Re: Look to Dinorwig
"getting a damn built in Cali-Fornicate-You would take DECADES due to environmental activists, corrupt politicians, and the worst red tape factory on the planet..."
There's that, but also not much really that good for sticking a dam in. The site of the St Francis dam is still there. As long as they didn't get somebody as undertrained as Mulholland in to do the design, that might be a place to try again, though a bit smaller with a safety dam just downstream.
Nearly all of the world's rivers that could accommodate a dam already have one. There are also several that have been built where it may work out to have been a really bad idea due to silt, etc. Activists are trying to get the Glen Canyon dam removed and even have web sites that make it sound like it's a done deal, but they may be deluded given how bad the current drought has been in the SW US. Sure, it could be removed, but at the same time large chunks of big cities in California, Nevada and Arizona would need to be vacated as there wouldn't be the power or water to support the populations any longer.