Forest Quote by Eduardo Bhatia

I want to work in water resources, as I think creating a string of check dams and utilizing water better is far more cost-effective…

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They're…

— Arundhati Roy

We need to develop multiple lakes within West Virginia, multiple lakes that can give us hydroelectric power - which maybe we don't need, but…

— Jim Justice

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

— Arthur Golden

Nuclear is the only energy source that has proven capable of fully replacing fossil fuels at low-cost in wealthy nations. While hydro-electric dams can…

— Michael Shellenberger

“Dams also tend to be built in remote areas which are the last refuge for species that have been displaced by development in other…

— Patrick McCully

From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge sums of…

— Arundhati Roy

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

— Stephen Ambrose

Though dams and artificial lakes can have significant negative environmental impacts, when carefully considered, mitigated, and managed, the benefits of hydropower often outweigh these…

— Seth Moulton

Hydroelectric dams remain the way many poor countries gain access to reliable electricity, and both solar and wind might be worthwhile in some circumstances.…

— Michael Shellenberger

Most of the world's major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated - in the United States, only two per cent of…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“In all, by the end of the twentieth century mankind had built some 45,000 large dams; during the global peak of dam building in…

— Steven Solomon