Water infrastructure is multifaceted and essential to achievement of the Sustainable
Development Goals. Major categories include dams and hydropower, water supply and …

Dam removal is widely used as an approach for river restoration in the United States. The
increase in dam removals—particularly large dams—and associated dam‐removal studies …

As the world's top two economies, the United States (US) and China face a number of similar
water resources problems. Yet, few studies have been done to systematically compare …

Appropriate sediment management is required to improve the lifespan and productivity of
reservoirs. Flushing operations to release part of the trapped sediment have therefore …

Large-scale dam removals provide opportunities to restore river function in the long-term
and are massive disturbances to riverine ecosystems in the short-term. The removal of two …

Dam removal is an effective and increasingly applied river restoration strategy. This has led
to heightened calls for research and monitoring aimed at understanding physical and …

The process of dam removal establishes the channel morphology that is later adjusted by
high‐flow events. Generalities about process responses have been hypothesized, but broad …

abstract Modern environmental problems are the result of human-environment interaction in
the process of industrialization. The relationship between economic development and …

The National Inventory of Dams (NID) officially lists more than 80,000 existing dams on
American waterways, 80 percent of which will be over 50 years old by 2030 (Duda, 2016). In …