---
title: "The Dams That Do Nothing"
canonical: "https://anchor.is/docket/issue/41/archive/article/31260/the-dams-that-do-nothing"
publication: "The Docket"
publisher: "The Docket"
language: "en-US"
guide: "https://anchor.is/docket/llms.txt"
format: "Two Design Choices"
author: "Seth D. Carrington"
author_url: "https://anchor.is/docket/team/30"
issue: 41
section: "archive"
section_name: "Climate Past"
published: 2026-07-16
updated: 2026-07-17
description: "Arthur Morgan's dry dams work by sitting empty. He built infrastructure so successful it now struggles to justify its own funding, because the better it works, the more it looks like nothing happened at all."
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---

# The Dams That Do Nothing

*By [Seth D. Carrington](<https://anchor.is/docket/team/30/markdown>)*

*July 16, 2026*

[Read on the website](<https://anchor.is/docket/issue/41/archive/article/31260/the-dams-that-do-nothing>)

See above — Article 2 is included after the ---ARTICLE_DIVIDER--- in article_1_body.

## More

- [Climate Past — Issue 41](<https://anchor.is/docket/issue/41/archive/markdown>)
- [Issue 41](<https://anchor.is/docket/issue/41/markdown>)
- [Publication guide](<https://anchor.is/docket/llms.txt>)