Hydropower dams face uncertain future as climate change drives sedimentation and glacier disappearance

An EPFL engineer has illustrated some of the complex ways in which climate change will affect hydropower facilities, taking ...
Ars Technica

Sedimentation threatens to steal capacity from nearly 50,000 dams

Slowly but surely, the world’s reservoirs are getting gunked up with sediment. In an unblocked river, the flowing water carries bits of sediment along—picked up from river banks or swept into the ...
iaea.org

IAEA Supports Marine Laboratories in the Caribbean, Helping to Expose the Link between Healthy Sea Life and Sedimentation

Sediments in water are finely-grained particles which are traditionally generated as a by-product of natural weathering and soil erosion, but are increasingly the result of human activities, such as ...
Indiatimes

India’s ‘silent crisis’: Reservoirs filled with silt, risking water insecurity, energy shortages, and ecological collapse by mid-century

A new study by IISER Bhopal reveals that Indian dams and reservoirs have lost 50% of their storage capacity due to sedimentation. This erosion threatens power generation and flood protection, ...