Dams and Development
By the year 2000, the world had built more than 45,000 large dams to irrigate crops, generate power, control floods in wet times and store water in dry times. Yet, in the last century, large dams also disrupted the ecology of half the world''s rivers, displaced tens of millions of people from their homes and left nations burdened with debt. Their impacts have inevitably generated growing controver...
By the year 2000, the world had built more than 45,000 large dams to irrigate crops, generate power, control floods in wet times and store water in dry times. Yet, in the last century, large dams also disrupted the ecology of half the world''s rivers, displaced tens of millions of people from their homes and left nations burdened with debt. Their impacts have inevitably generated growing controver...
