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Describe how building a dam for electricity affects an ecosystem.

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The alteration of a river's flow and sediment transport downstream of a dam often causes the greatest sustained environmental impacts. Life in and around a river evolves and is conditioned on the timing and quantities of river flow. A dam also holds back sediments that would naturally replenish downstream ecosystems.

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