Dams be damned, let the world's rivers flow again | Kate Horner

The flawed development model of dam-building has continued around the world. It’s time to give permanent protection to free-flowing rivers
Fifty years ago, environmentalists and dam builders in the United States were locked in a bitter battle. Dam building had swept the nation in the 1940s and 1950s, blocking and impounding some of the most important rivers of the American west. On the Snake river (where controversies about dams continue to this day), dam construction had led to a massive