Burmese authorities said they won’t give up building the dam on Irrawaddy River, they totally neglect the environmental and social impacts of these projects. The communities living along the River in Burma are going to face severe disruption to their livelihoods as a result of this dam. A dam built across a river will obviously have a major effect on the river as well.
Rivers possess a delicate ecology that depends on a regular cycle of disturbance within certain tolerances. The plant and animal communities that inhabit the river and river margins have evolved to adapt to their river's own peculiar pattern of flood and drought, slow and fast current. Dams disrupt this ecology.
Some adverse effects of building a dam are:
Interrupting Natural Cycles
Armoring the Riverbed
Removing Sediment
Starving the River
Changing Temperatures
Stopping Fish Migration
Not all adverse effects can be so easily removed. Building a dam will kill the river; Irrawaddy is our national heritage, Burma’s lifeline. Why the government wants to build a dam on Irrawaddy River? Why they want to spoil the glory of the Irrawaddy? Stop building dam on Irrawaddy. NO DAM ON IRRAWADDY!!!!
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