Valuing Rivers: Dammed if we don't

"There are currently thousands of dams on the drawing board or under construction around the world. Many of these have been planned without fully counting the cost of what could be lost: food security, jobs and livelihoods, the flow of nutrients to fertilize agriculturally productive floodplains and deltas, and even the extinction of species, such as the Tapanuli Orangutan in Sumatra.

As climate instability bites and cities and countries bounce from one water crisis to the next, something has to be done urgently to protect and restore all the benefits of healthy rivers."

Read the full article here.

Read the WWF report Valuning Rivers: How the diverse benefits of healthy rivers underpin economies