Dams & Ecosystem
What are dams?
What is a structure that adjusts the ecosystem and how it functions?
This specific salmon species is now endangered because dams block its path.
What is the Atlantic Salmon?
This many million people have been evacuated due to dams in the last 6 decades.
What is 40 to 80 million?
These people face the disruption of their traditional food sources and culture.
What are indigenous people?
What is 3.09K cubic meters per inhabitant?
What is Dams per capita in 1978.
This "Giant" catfish from Southeast Asia is listed as endangered.
What is the Giant Mekong Catfish?
Along with dams, this type of construction causes mass evacuations.
What is reservoir construction?
This specific fever-inducing disease sees increased rates near dams.
What is malaria?
Water transitions from a "Racing River" to this still environment.
What is a "Still Lake"?
This "Chub" species is one of the four fish mentioned as endangered.
What is the Humpback Chub?
This is what happens to 40 to 80 million people because of dam projects.
What is being evacuated from their homes?
This is a secondary type of fever, along with malaria, that increases near dams.
What is dengue fever?
Still water gets warmer because it spends all day doing this.
What is sitting in the sun?
This "Sucker" species is listed as endangered due to dam construction.
What is the Razorback Sucker?
Besides culture, dams disrupt this vital resource for indigenous people.
What are food sources?
This type of infection spreads more easily in communities near dams.
What is a parasitic infection?
Fast water has bubbles, which provide the fish with this essential element.
What is oxygen?
It is very difficult for fish to perform this action to get past a dam.
What is swimming upstream?
These specific practices of indigenous people are disrupted by dams.
What are traditional cultural practices?
This specific issue with water quality poses a major health risk.
What is water contamination?