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Water Storage

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Although water is stored in a variety of ways, most of the environmental interest in storage centers around dams. In less developed nations, the construction of large dams for irrigation and the production of electricity has led to problems that are broad in scope, periodically influencing millions of people. These problems include an increase in waterborne disease (especially schistosomiasis), resettlement, and loss of land used for subsistence agriculture. In developed nations, the impacts of large dams are managed with greater effectiveness, and so the main concerns center around less important issues including change in fisheries and migration routes, and downstream erosion. Small dams generally receive little national or international attention, simply because their impacts are often regional in scope. In addition, local resources are often adequate to manage potential impacts, even in less developed countries.

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Moore, J.W. (1989). Water Storage. In: Balancing the Needs of Water Use. Springer Series on Environmental Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3496-8_2

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