Europe removed a record 602 river barriers last year

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A dam fell in Iceland last December, the first the country has ever deliberately dismantled. The structure on the River Melsá had long since stopped generating power. Sheep were living in the old powerhouse. “It wasn’t providing any electricity,” said Hamish Moir, a river engineer from CBEC, the Scottish […] The post Europe removed a record 602 river barriers last year first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.