Why Spain is breaking down its dams with Pao Fernández Garrido

“I think people are afraid that we want to remove all the dams in the world.”Dams can effectively act as concrete straight jackets. Weirs and dams and other obstructions cause all kinds of harm, some of which we understand and much of which we don’t. More than one million barriers are thought to exist in Europe’s rivers, with many of them over 100 years old. Some are old and obsolete, serving no economic or environmental purpose. Spain is leading the way in the number of structures ...