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You actually want to restore the river to be more resilient as the earth warms, fish returning empowers many other parts of a river ecosystem.

Install dedicated water tanks to store water, evaporation rates are much less.

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Most of the folks on the forum are not engineers, you can't expect them to understand the downstream effects of their decisions.

so, the engineers who built the dams did understand the downstream effects of their decisions? and they did it anyway?

Likely yes. Different times, different sensibilities. But also there’s always a range of opinions even among experts. How long did it take medicine to agree on tobacco use and whether an egg is healthy?

They knew what would happen. They just didn't have modern values. People would rather make them out to be stupid than admit that anyone at any point looked at the tradeoff and decided the dam would benefit everyone enough more than the ecosystem to be worth it.

They are prompt engineers.

> You actually want to restore the river to be more resilient as the earth warms, fish returning empowers many other parts of a river ecosystem.

Dams can make rivers more resilient.

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