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Dams affect society in many positive ways.

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Dams also aid in navigation by making waters deeper and calmer.
Most likely you are affected by a dam one way or another. You may be receiving drinking water from a dam's reservoir or eating food grown on a farm that was irrigated by a dam's reservoir water.

But societal structures often have as many problems as they have good points.

The catastrophics failure of dams, among other things, has a huge impact on society.


What dams have failed?


Dams: societal structures Examples of dam failure