NRDC's Carolina Herrera told the Guardian that the dams would have flooded almost 6,000 hectares of land, caused "irreparable damage" to the rivers' watersheds, endangered wildlife like the huemul, and severely affected the local tourism economy.
Large dams became controversial in the 1980s and 1990s as environmental and civil rights organizations focused attention on issues like the damage done to rivers, watersheds and aquatic ecosystems, poorly designed resettlement strategies, failure to share economic benefits with affected communities, weak government controls and corruption.
California Representative Valadao recently introduced legislation that would trample environmental protections for our rivers, watersheds and endangered species, blaming these protections for the drought.
The EIA was only for a specific site and not regionally, as is required by law, since the reserve is part of the Lerma and Balsas Rivers watersheds and is defined as a priority hydrologic region.
In Pakistan authorities have breached dykes in the Indus river watershed in order to protect towns and cities.
To illustrate the applicability of AI techniques, intermittent Koyna river watershed in Maharashtra, India is chosen as a case study.
For this purpose, sediments from thirteen sampling sites within the Ebro river watershed (NE Spain) were collected for ecotoxicity characterization.
The Peel river watershed is one of North America's last remaining unspoiled natural areas, stretching over 68,000 square km of rugged mountains, boreal forest, tundra and wetlands.
Nor have any of them been as large as the Lake Erie river watershed, which encompasses 30,000 sq miles of land in both the US and Canada.
These cover various contexts including water for agriculture, urban, domestic and industrial use, the rights of indigenous people and river, watershed and ecosystem management.
