Dams. They’re brute-force, Industrial Age artifacts that rarely deliver what they promise. One reason this dynamic has been overlooked is that earlier studies evaluated dams’ economic performance by considering whether international lenders like the World Bank recovered their loans — and in most cases, they did. But the economic impact on host countries was often debilitating. nytimes/2014/08/24/opinion/sunday/large-dams-just-arent-worth-the-cost.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1
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