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GEO-6 Regional Assessment for North America Number of dams removed
Figure 2.4.22: Rate of dam removal in the US, 1915-2014 6 0 0 5 4 8 5 0 0 4 0 0
3 0 0 20 0 10 0
0 2 2 2 19 3 18 4 7 29 8 14 7
Figure 2.4.23: Annual storage loss of US reservoir capacity, 2012
Source: O’Connor et al. 2015
Distribution of mean annual loss of reservoir capacity in the continental US. The water resource regions are broadly defined by large river basins. Source: Graf et al. 2010