Niagara River Team Wins 2016 Thiess International Riverprize

The Niagara River in New York State, USA has won this year’s Thiess International Riverprize for transforming the region into one that values and maintains the integrity of its fresh water systems as a major component of regional economic revitalisation. The other two finalists were:

• Segura River Basin Authority and Spain’s Murcia Regional Water Department for implementing an engineering, legal and sustainability plan to restore the river and supply reclaimed water to agriculture
• The U.S. Department of the Interior and the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe for successfully executing the largest dam removal project in world history—simultaneous removal of two large dams on the Elwha River, with reservoirs holding over 21 million cubic meters of sediment

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