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Death is a health risk. So are cholera and other diseases accompanying flooding. And other factors associated with reservoirs: desertification and lake evapo
by dredmorbius 1y ago
Death is a health risk.
So are cholera and other diseases accompanying flooding.
And other factors associated with reservoirs: desertification and lake evaporation can lead to increased dust, common where water is diverted or impounded (Aral Sea, Lake Powell, Lake Mead). Disruption of silt flows has various impacts, more on the general environmental side.
Generally, if your concern is overall mortality risk rather than a specific disease/pollution mechanism, dams do not get a free pass.
- lazide 1y agoThe public health department doesn’t concern itself with things like national defense, if skyscrapers are likely to fall over or not, and local gang violence. Those have their own specialities. Otherwise, literally everything is a ‘health issue’, including agriculture and commercial/residential zoning. And notably, no one has actually provided any examples of where any of these are actually in major cities. Because it’s absurd, hah.