underwater towns ready for the dam
Created for Page Huyette who asked “I'm researching an idea for novel I'm writing, and wondering how many towns around the world have been flooded and are now completely underwater to make way for dams”
underwater towns ready for the dam
for more than three-quarters of the world’s economy. As they expand, many of the world’s fast-growing cities end up building over floodplains, forests, and wetlands that could absorb rising waters during a storm or hold reservoirs of water during a drought.
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Around the world, an international movement of transition towns is transforming communities from the grassroots up by nurturing a caring culture, reimagining ways to meet local needs, and crowdsourcing solutions.