Damming Rivers

Masee Shahid and Adam Mayberry 

Damming rivers has a good and bad effect to the community. One of the many good things that can happen is preventing floods. This can be done by the people working at the dam, they get to “control” the discharge of the river. Another good thing about dams is that they have water storages that provide water during a dry time. Throughout the Unites states dams help provide Picnic Areas and other recreational sites. The Yangtze has many 300 fish species and making the dam could affect them because I don’t know how they could get through the dams. Along the Yagntze river almost 1.3- 1.9 million people were forced to leave their homes because they were building the dam on the water near their cities. Almost 140 cities and 1000 villages were forced to leave. The building of the dam also meant to move species like dolphins some where else but they failed to move them so they are still looking for another place for them .