Hydropower accounts for one fifth of the world's electricity supply and have helped shape and promote economic growth in such countries as Canada, Norway, and the United States. Environmental and social concerns, coupled with financial constraints, resulted in a decade of stagnant investment in the 1990s and critical assessment of the role of hydropower in development. Now, lessons from the past, together with emerging global dynamics, are recasting...
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Directions in hydropower (English). Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/164581468336679451