{"id":13709,"date":"2025-03-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=13709"},"modified":"2025-03-05T03:24:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T03:24:50","slug":"dams-longevity-sustainability-march-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/dams-longevity-sustainability-march-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Dams Built to Last Forever?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"All Dams Are Temporary\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XiUOBdEUqjY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Dams provide essential services like hydropower and flood control but inevitably trap sediment, reducing reservoir capacity over time. The Lewis and Clark Reservoir has already lost 30% of its capacity. By 2045, it could be half-filled with sediment, highlighting a slow-moving but unavoidable issue for all reservoirs worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dams provide essential services like hydropower and flood control but inevitably trap sediment, reducing reservoir capacity over time.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4321\/35291433663_6f3fad4df2_k.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5440,5425,5423,5439,5426,5427,5432,5429,5421,5428,5434,5435,301,5441,5422,5437,5430,5424,5436,5433,5438,5431,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-13709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-engineering","8":"tag-dam-lifespan","9":"tag-dam-longevity","10":"tag-dredging-limitations","11":"tag-environmental-management","12":"tag-flood-control","13":"tag-flushing-drawbacks","14":"tag-future-water-infrastructure","15":"tag-global-reservoir-capacity-loss","16":"tag-hydropower-sustainability","17":"tag-lewis-and-clark-reservoir","18":"tag-long-term-dam-sustainability","19":"tag-policy-solutions","20":"tag-practical-engineering","21":"tag-reservoir-capacity-reduction","22":"tag-reservoir-sedimentation","23":"tag-river-sediment-dynamics","24":"tag-sediment-bypass-systems","25":"tag-sediment-management","26":"tag-sediment-transport-engineering","27":"tag-sustainable-hydropower","28":"tag-upstream-land-management","29":"tag-water-infrastructure","30":"tag-youtube","31":"post_format-post-format-video","32":"cs-entry","33":"cs-video-wrap"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13710,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13709\/revisions\/13710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}