2023-05-04T13:11:58.897439

2024-10-04T16:27:29.136745

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This data set is not global. The data is confined to the world’s 50 major river basins.

As new data becomes available

global

International Rivers. "Dam hotspots". Available at http://tryse.net/googleearth/irivers-dev3/. Accessed through Global Forest Watch on [date]. www.globalforestwatch.org

Major dams

Dams data was compiled by [International Rivers](http://www.internationalrivers.org/) from various sources, including: the [Global Reservoir and Dam (GRanD) Database](http://atlas.gwsp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=207&Itemid=68), the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) [Challenge Program on Water and Food - Mekong](http://waterandfood.org/) (for Mekong basin dams only), the [United States National Inventory of Dams (NID)](http://nid.usace.army.mil/cm_apex/f?p=838:12), other government dam inventories, and original data collection by International Rivers.

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English

The [State of the World's Rivers](http://tryse.net/googleearth/irivers-dev3/) is an interactive web database that illustrates data on ecological health in the world’s 50 major river basins. Indicators of ecosystem health are grouped into the categories of river fragmentation, biodiversity, and water quality. The database was created and published by International Rivers in 2014.<br><br>The Dam Hotspots data contains over 5,000 dam locations determined by latitude and longitude coordinates. These locations were confined to the world’s 50 major river basins. The data set comes from multiple sources, and was corrected for location errors by International Rivers. The “project status”—a moving target—was determined by acquiring official government data, as well as through primary research from Berkeley and five International Rivers’ regional offices.<br>* Operational: Already existing dams.<br>* Under construction: Dams which are currently being constructed.<br>* Planned: Dams whose studies or licensing have been completed, but construction has yet to begin.<br>* Inventoried: Dams whose potential site has been selected, but neither studies nor licensing have occurred.<br>* Suspended: Dams which have been temporarily or permanently suspended, deactivated, cancelled, or revoked.<br>* Unknown: No data are currently available.

Identifies dam locations for the world’s 50 major river basins

Data results are biased towards public available data, so gaps may exist.

Flooding from new dams can lead to forest loss (some major cases in Mekong & Brazil)

http://tryse.net/googleearth/irivers-dev3/

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