Sentence examples for put dams from inspiring English sources

Maybe only when the world runs out of profitable places to put dams will the building of harmful ones stop.

Simply put, dams don't just destroy the environment and impoverish local communities.

In addition to water quality issues, there aren't a lot of economically viable places to put dams anymore, Weiser continued.

Mr Gorton represented some of the oldest parts of the old economy, the interests that chop down trees and put big dams in rivers.

It has not put a dam in front of it".

Corrupt special interests want to put a dam on a piece of land that Mr. Smith wants for a boys' camp.

The focus on methane could help guide decisions about where to put a dam, Harrison says.

"Brazil is putting these dams into the energy mix, without so much as looking at their carbon footprints," said Brent Millikin, the Brazil-based Amazon program director for International Rivers, a US environmental group.

As a report in 2000 by the World Commission on Dams put it, in damning understatement, "the ecological impacts of the dam were not considered at the inception stage as the international agencies involved in water resources development had not realized this need at that time".

The defense put the van Dams' style of life on trial, painting a picture of a sexually promiscuous couple who could have opened the door to the abduction.

"Our greatest concern is that they don't do what they did with dams — put a lot of them in the ocean and then just stand back and see what happens," said John Holloway, the secretary of Oregon Anglers, a political action committee for recreational fishing.