We're Paying the Price Today for Decades of Relentless Dam Building

By Rachel Olivieri, AlterNet. Posted September 18, 2008.

Decades ago three new dams were started every day. But the debts of
temporary prosperity are all coming due and payable today.

Between 1950 and 1970, three new dam projects were started every
single day in the world. Today, primarily in China, Turkey, Brazil,
Japan and India, one new dam project begins daily with an average
completion date of four years. Fifteen hundred dams are currently
under construction worldwide.

Dams fragment, divert and subjugate the world's rivers. In one long
lifespan, beginning with the inauguration of Hoover Dam in 1936, the
engineering marvel of the 20th century, civilization has altered the
most important function that makes the earth work, water. Thus,
transmuting humanity into something foreign to the earth it inhabits
-- a stranger to the very system which gave rise to our species.

Zaroc Stone wrote:

Beavers all over America are up in arms!