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Dams and resources
Title: Dams and resources
Category: Science & Technology
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Dams and resources
The Environmental Impacts of Large Dams
Land and water are ecologically linked in a natural system called a watershed. From the smallest
droplet to the mightiest river, water works to shape the land, taking with it sediment and dissolved materials
that drain to watercourses and, in most cases, eventually to the sea. So is the river a product of the land it
inhabits--the type of rock and soil, the shape of the land, and …showed first 75 words of 1223 total…
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"fresh markets" to exploit and new ways to sell dams to a skeptical public.
The new South Africa has the opportunity to devise a water policy that builds on what the world
has learned in the past fifty years of unchecked river development, and that involves civil society in the
decision-making process. In the longterm, such an approach is the only one that doesn't diminish one of
Africa's most treasured resources--its rivers.
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