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    [] Dams have been built throughout the world for many different reasons weather it is for energy purposes, or to create a reservoir that can be made into a fish hatchery like the ones shown in the video above. Throughout the years the creation of dams has created unforeseen and unpredicted problems. These problems range from limiting migration of fish upstream, to people feeling that there cultural connection to the river has been damaged by the dam. These problems and many others have already led to the removal of dams, and will benefit in the push to remove many dams in the future. Typically dams are removed to return the river or stream to its original state, allowing fish and other aquatic organisms access to parts of the river that were lost because of the damn. Increased fish migration in particular is an important benefit from dam removal. When the dam is no longer blocking the river fish, game species in particular, are able to run father upstream and have a lager breeding area. The increase in the area for fish breeding will lead to increased fish population. The increase in the number of fish can be very beneficial to a community and the people in it, brining in wranglers from different areas. Dam removal also leads to the river being a better recreational area for things like canoeing and rafting. Unfortunately along with the positives of dam removal there are negatives. Some of these negatives are aspects like the water level dropping and causing a once lake front property to no longer be the same, the loss of hydro power in the area, the loss of a reliable source of water for farmers in the area that use the reservoir water for irrigation, and these are just a few. The people that receive the negative effects are naturally the ones who oppose the removal. If there was a form of legislation that was put into place to compensate these people for their losses everyone could obtain the benefits of a river being returned to its natural state, like the areas reclaimed in the video above. In almost every dam removal situation there are going to be pros and cons, and people supporting and opposing the removal. I think that both sides should be looked at and weighed out when determining whether a dam should be removed or not.

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