Dams make water shortages even worse

• Autores: Fred Pearce
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3131, 2017, pág. 16
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Dams are supposed to collect water from rivers and redistribute it to alleviate water shortages. But it turns out that in most cases they actually create water scarcity. Almost a quarter of the global population experiences significant decreases in water availability through human interventions on rivers, says Ted Veldkamp at Vrije University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Those interventions primarily involve dams that take water for irrigation or hydroelectricity, or to supply cities