Global study of >550K reservoirs finds >half of world’s reservoirs will be >half full of sediments by 2060. Capture of sediments (>36 cu km/yr) not only reduces water storage but also impacts (mostly adversely) downstream geomorphologic & hydrologic processes.
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Each decade the world is losing over 7 per cent of its freshwater storage capacity to sediment build-up, according to an analysis of over half a million reservoirs
