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The changing hydrology of a dammed Amazon [1]

Developing countries around the world are expanding hydropower to meet growing energy demand. In the Brazilian Amazon, >200 dams are planned over the next 30 years, and questions about the impacts of current and future hydropower in this globally important watershed remain unanswered. In this context, we applied a hydrologic indicator method to quantify how existing Amazon dams have altered the natural flow regime and to identify predictors of alteration.

Original Source [2]

Publication Date: 
01/11/2017
Kelsie Timpe [3], David Kaplan [4]
Science Advances [5]
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Tags:
Amazon [6], Hydrology [7], Brazil [8], Dams [9], River Basin [10], Hydroelectricity [11], Water Resources [12]
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/changing-hydrology-dammed-amazon
[2] http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/11/e1700611.full
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/kelsie-timpe
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/david-kaplan
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/science-advances
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/amazon
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hydrology
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/brazil
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/dams
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/river-basin
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hydroelectricity
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-resources