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Impacts of dams, reservoirs and water transfer schemes - Coggle Diagram
Impacts of dams, reservoirs and water transfer schemes
Dams
Destructive to surrounding enviroment
Forces people to leave homes
Hasankeyf
Destroys habitats in land and river
Bakun Damm- bornealan clouded leopard
Reservoirs
Upstream
Land is flooded
Covers towns - polluting river
Ancient Hasankeyf - flooded history
Species threated with extinction - hot at surface cold below
Deep water "dead zone"
Traps sediment decreasing water quality and where fish lay eggs
Blocks fish migration routes
Downstream
Water temp is higher
Deltas and estuary's eroded
Releases Oxygen starved water - killing fish
Fish and plant species diversity reduced
Floodplain ecosystems are changed due to less flooding
Three gorges resevor
Water Transfer schemes
Species may end up where they don't belong