My Thoughts On Dams

Dams

In my opinion I think dams should all be destroyed.

If you were to ask me a year or two ago what I thought on dams I would tell you that I think they are a good thing and are very interesting. But now that I know what I do I completely disagree with them.

Dams change our whole ecosystem around. They are forming lakes where there shouldn’t be lakes. People put these up and don’t even think about the impact that these will have on our environment. Organisms that lived in the stream that was there before cant live there anymore because they aren’t used to a habitat with still water.

They are alright in some ways. Dams are a place that can employ hundreds of workers. If we where to destroy all dams so many men and woman would be out of work. I think that they shouldn’t remove all of them but a good percent of them and stop building them. Another reason dams are good is because they produce a lot of power which we need to survive. They are an effective, low pollution way o creating easy power to run our homes and businesses

Dams flood areas that aren’t meant to be flooded. They ruin the landscape and the soil that was there before. In places where there used to be salmon and trout the bass population is growing rapidly. Salmon need to be able to swim up stream to reproduce and then swim back down but with the amount of dams being built it makes it really hard for the fish to do so.

My conclusion is that dams shouldn’t all be torn down because then there would be a lot of people out of work. I do think that they should stop building them though. I mean for the most part ecosystems have adapted where there are dams but in places where there is running water I don’t think that that should be changed.

Joey