Articles by Lori Pottinger
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Rivers Must Flow: The Case against Big Dams
Lori Pottinger – Al Jazeera,
16 Jan 2012
Large dams threaten the planet’s riverine lifelines and action must be taken soon. More than 50,000 large dams now choke about two-thirds of the world’s largest rivers. The consequences of this massive engineering programme have been devastating. Large dams have wiped out species; flooded huge areas of wetlands, forests and farmlands; displaced tens of millions of people, and affected close to half a billion people living downstream.
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