Dam removal is something we support especially here in Japan where most rivers and / or canyons have some sort of dam built along their courses blocking the natural flow of the river through the canyons. In Japan there are so many small, broken and forgotten dams littered through out the waterways. Japan had this great construction boom of concreting as many waterways as possible. After a period of years of neglect and unknown reasoning of trying to control the rivers we would love to see less dams and dam removals.
DamNation explores the sea change in the attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers. Dam removal has moved beyond the fictional Monkey Wrench Gang to go mainstream. Where obsolete dams come down, rivers bound back to life, giving salmon and other wild fish the right of return to primeval spawning grounds, after decades without access. DamNation’s cinematography and unexpected discoveries move through rivers and landscapes altered by dams, but also through a metamorphosis in values, from conquest of the natural world to knowing ourselves as part of nature.
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