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What I Think About Dams
Personally I think that dams are good to an extent. The only problem that we have is that us as human beings are way too greedy and don’t think of the environment that we will forever change.
Sure the water will give us more hydropower that is clean and can be recycled. The water that we use for the dams normally will have flowed freely down river but us now controlled is useful to us. Think about it when there are floods the river takes a lot of it away but if there is a dam we produce a very large amount of power and may just save some of the environment from flooding. The dams keep the environment in check if we only use the water to an extent.
The water that is made into a reservoir is slowly and gradually being let out to the ecosystem. There is a problem though we take too much water from the ecosystem when we make the dam. If we make smaller dams we could make it so that we don’t take so much water out of the dam and still keep the environment in a healthy order.
The water that we let get into the ocean from the rivers is a problem. The next thing that we will be fighting for is water and we are letting way too much out to sea. The thing is that if we reduce the amount of water that we let into the ocean and clean and keep it our water supply will not get short for a while. Sure the planet is covered in water but most of that water is salt water and that is not easily made to fresh water. Instead of taking the water from the aquifers that can not easily be filled with fresh water fast will be sustained for future water shortages.
If you have seen the movie “The Day After Tomorrow” then you would also know that our world climate is very delicate to the fresh water levels in the ocean. While we are sitting reading right now hundreds of thousands of liters of fresh water are being drained into the ocean. Like in the movie the world’s climate began to change because of that change due to the melting ice caps. We have known that our affects on the world through global warming would have consequences but we still have not stopped. This is why my idea of letting less water into the ocean from our river systems would be a very good idea and not only that we will also be saving a lot of fresh water instead of loosing it to the ocean.
All in all the dams that we have are good and bad. If we could make more and smaller dams so that we can save more ecosystems and create hydropower at the same time. The water that we stop from getting into the ocean will be able to be cleaned and used for future generation to come.