Europe: Could Removing Europe's Dams Revive Its Rivers?

Aug 4, 2018 | Leonard Proske, Deutsche Welle
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Sixty percent of Europe's surface waters are in poor environmental condition, according to the latest water quality report for the continent from the European Environment Agency. The nongovernmental organization Dam Removal Europe directly attributes this to the roughly 30,000 dams blocking the continent's rivers and waterways. The nongovernmental organization argues that the structures not only harm the environment, but that they are expensive to maintain, which is why its calling for their removal.