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Hydro-Electric Works and Nature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2009

Lord Hurcomb
Lord Hurcomb
Affiliation:
President of the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves
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The most striking and perhaps far-reaching of all the human interferences with Nature witnessed in the present century is that represented by the widespread lowering of water-tables, the correction and regulation of the regime of rivers and the construction of large dams and new artificial lakes, most of which are constructed for the purpose of generating electricity.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , May 1956 , pp. 188 - 191
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1956

References

1 Now published in a volume “Hydroclcctricity and the Protection of Nature” to be obtained from the Union's Office, 31 Rue Vautier, Brusscls.

Note.—The above article first appeared in Science et Nature, a magazine published under the authority of the National Museum of Natural History, Paris. It is republished with permission.