Once icons of commercial energy, ageing dams deemed too costly and harmful to keep up are being demolished at an unprecedented charge, particularly within the US. But the prices and engineering challenges concerned are huge, floods and droughts should be managed, and communities are divided over the environmental advantages of restoring rivers to their pure flows.
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