Problems with big dams Infographic
Sep 26, 2020
By 2015, the dam industry had choked more than half of the Earth's major rivers with some 57,000 large dams.
The consequences of this massive engineering program have been devastating. The world's large dams have
wiped out species; flooded huge areas of wetlands, forests and farmlands; and displaced tens of millions of people
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More than 50,000 large dams block at least 60% of the world's rivers. The consequences of this massive engineering program are devastating. Large dams destroy species; flood vast areas of wetlands, forests, and agricultural land; moving tens of millions of people, and influencing half a billion people living downstream.
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