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Silenced Rivers

Static Dams, Changing Climate

An excerpt from Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams, by Patrick McCully (Zed Books, 1996).

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The Wise Use of Watersheds

A (pdf) excerpt from Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams by Patrick McCully (Zed Books, 1996).
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Sedimentation Problems with Dams

Excerpt from Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams, by Patrick McCully, Zed Books, London, 1996

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Reservoir Emissions: Excerpt from Silenced Rivers

Patrick McCully

Excerpted from the new introduction of the updated 2001 edition of:
Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams

It’s baloney and it’s much overblown . . . Methane is produced quite substantially
in the rain forest and no one suggests cutting down the rain forest.

Karolyn Wolf, spokeswoman for the US National Hydropower Association
responding to International Rivers press release on
greenhouse gas emissions from reservoirs, 1995