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EARTH 111: Water: Science and Society

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  3. Unit 2: Physical Hydrology
  4. Module 5: Dam it All!
  5. Ponding the Waters: Impacts of Dams

Other Impacts

In this section, we will consider other impacts of dams.

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  • Pollution
  • Fish Spawning and Migration
  • Diseases – A Tropical Malady
  • Earthquakes and Structural Failures
  • Politics and Control of Flow Across Borders

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Lessons

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    • Unit 1: Fresh Water: Scarcity or Surfeit?
    • Unit 2: Physical Hydrology
      • Module 3: Rivers and Watersheds
      • Module 4: Flood and Drought
      • Module 5: Dam it All!
        • Goals and Objectives
        • Introduction to Dams
        • Ponding the Waters: Impacts of Dams
          • Nutrient Supply to Floodplains
          • The Nile River and Aswan Dam
          • Sediment Trapping
          • Other Impacts
            • Pollution
            • Fish Spawning and Migration
            • Diseases – A Tropical Malady
            • Earthquakes and Structural Failures
            • Politics and Control of Flow Across Borders
          • Three Gorges: A “Mega-Dam” and Its Impacts
        • Bringing Down the Dams
        • The Future of Dams: Developing Nations
        • Summative Assessment: Dam Debate
      • Module 6: Groundwater Hydrology
      • Capstone Project Introduction
    • Unit 3: Social Science of Water

Course materials prepared by Michael Arthur and Demian Saffer, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, and Demian Saffer, University Park, Patrick Belmont, Utah State University.

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