Water Bureaucracy - DAMS

If the objective is to ensure water security in order to support food security and economic prosperity, building dams is one the option besides many others and obsession with this single pathway to achieve this objective could be downright expensive and counterproductive. Most of the arguments supporting building such large dams are consist on number of fallacies. The most of salient of them includes - large dam are crucial for water storage.  It's not true. There are three types of water storage: glaciers, groundwater storage and surface storage. From among these three, there is nothing can be done about glacier. Of the remaining two, surface storage is most expensive and wasteful (due to evaporative and seepage losses). It is little wonder that in the united states alone, water storage for the last 30 years water storage has almost exclusively been undertaken in a groundwater mode. Thus, this argument does not work as far as water storage is concerned.  - We are runnin...