Is There a Place for Hydropower in a Warming World?
Hydropower has a reputation for being climate-friendly. Yet building dams disrupts environments and taxes already scarce water resources.
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Hydropower has a reputation for being climate-friendly. Yet building dams disrupts environments and taxes already scarce water resources.
Hydropower won’t help solve the climate crisis, but new dam projects may lead to war over one thing key to our survival — access to fresh, clean water.
Rivers dry up while the superpowers jockey for position, hoping to control what remains of the world’s resources.
Their high greenhouse gas emissions, environmental impact, and regional conflicts over water sharing offer a clear answer.
“ remains the largest source of renewable energy in the electricity sector,” the IPCC wrote in 2018. “Evidence suggests that relatively high levels