Dams Quote by Pinarayi Vijayan

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

There is a preliminary belief that Tuolumne River water could be captured by other reservoirs that are downstream from Hetch Hetchy, the Cherry and…

— Matt Gonzalez

Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.

— Paul Hawken

“A dam is monumentally static; it tries to bring a river under control, to regulate its seasonal pattern of floods and low flow.”

— Patrick McCully

Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature…

— Wendell Berry

“In a flood the water goes everywhere, you don't have to think about it. In a drought, if you want water, you have to…

— Zadie Smith

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its…

— Vinoba Bhave

Normally, you want the river when the water is low and not when it's flooded. For example, there are parts of the Amazon where…

— Jeremy Wade

Be a river - not a reservoir.

— John C. Maxwell

We have over 30 dams in Puerto Rico, and I think only one works. We're here in the rain forest, and we have plenty…

— Eduardo Bhatia

When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet…

— Hal Borland

“Water in flood means exactly what it says. It has no hypocrisy. Even as it murders, it leaves life behind and carves elegant, intricate…

— Craig Childs