Three Giant Dams Destabilizing the World Food Supply. More than 70 percent of humanity’s fresh water goes to agriculture. And so, as humanity outruns it’s water supply the response has been to build ever larger water projects for agriculture and ever more complex distribution corridors to transport that agriculture thousands […]
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3 Giant Dams affecting the World food supply Part 2 of 4 Dam Number 1 China’s 3 Gorges Dam, Continent: Asia. Completed in 2006. World’s largest hydro electric dam. 600 feet high. 1.5 miles across. Reservoir 370 miles long. Impounds Asia’s longest river the Yangtze. Raised water level in the […]
Dam Number Two. America’s Glen Canyon Dam Continent: North America Finished in 1963. 710 feet tall. One quarter mile wide. 10 million tons of concrete vs. over a billion tons of water and silt in the reservoir. Built on sandstone. Location: About due south of Salt Lake City, Utah, just […]
3 Dams on 3 continents in 3 minute reads Continent: Africa. Location: Due East of Djibouti, just inside Ethiopia’s border with Sudan. Impounds: The Blue Nile. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation identified the dam site in the 1950’s but it has just been built and is being filled in the […]