The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ordered the dam removed after concluding that the environmental and economic benefits of a free-flowing river outweighed the electricity generated by the dam.

美国联邦能源监管委员会得出结论说，一条自由流动的河流所带来的环境和经济效益超过了大坝产生的电力，因此下令拆除大坝。

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He has also promised to use Chinese loans to build a controversial dam on the Omo River in the south.

他还承诺用中国的借款在南部奥莫河上修建一座有争议的水坝。

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Blocking a river with a dam blocks the movement both of fish upstream to spawn and of silt downstream to fertilise fields.

建堤坝来阻断河流，既阻挡了回流产卵的鱼，又阻碍了下游淤泥肥沃土壤。

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In nineteen eighteen, a man named Arthur Davis proposed building a dam to control the Colorado River.

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Simply throwing a new dam onto a river with a diversion would impair some down stream users prior right to use that water.

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Such a dam, he says, merely briefly delays a river.

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