Dammed if You Do. / Lori Pottinger.
by Pottinger, Lori; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 21Environment. Publisher: Ecologist, 2001ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Dams -- Developing countries | Dams -- Environmental aspectsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The world's 45,000 large dams--which block over half of the world's rivers--have been failed experiments. They have failed to produce as much electricity and water, or control as much flood damage, as their backers claim....Their effects on ecosystems have been disastrous." (ECOLOGIST) The author discusses the World Commission on Dams' (WCD) report on the development of dams and examines why activists are fighting to eliminate dams altogether.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: Dammed if You Do, Feb. 2001; pp. 50-51.
"The world's 45,000 large dams--which block over half of the world's rivers--have been failed experiments. They have failed to produce as much electricity and water, or control as much flood damage, as their backers claim....Their effects on ecosystems have been disastrous." (ECOLOGIST) The author discusses the World Commission on Dams' (WCD) report on the development of dams and examines why activists are fighting to eliminate dams altogether.
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