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Quote:	Fred Pearce on Water Resources 4/3/2007	View Quote
Published:	4/3/2007	View Person
Submitted by:	Frank K 267 days ago	View Comments (0)
Categories:	Water Resources & Water Usage	Add Comment

Quote Details: Environmentalists in the old days loved dams. But no more. The reservoir itself is a problem – flooding large areas of land that may be scenic, home to many people and often, being in a silt-covered river valley, good farmland. That is a major loss. Worldwide tens of millions of people have lost their homes, land and livelihoods to large dams.