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Himalayas and environment

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The Himalayas,the world's most highhigherhighestI don't know mountain range, may soon hold another record: it couldneedwillI don't know become home to the greatest density of dams in the world. More than a thousand are allneithereitherI don't know already operating, duringunderinI don't know construction or beenwerebeingI don't know planned in northern India,Nepal and Bhutan. In additionPlusBesidesI don't know providing clear energy, they could improve control and access to drinkdrinkingdrunkI don't know water. DespiteButAlthoughI don't know they will also pose a serious threat to indigenous species. Another recent study suggests the dams will be bad news onforbyI don't know many of the Himalayas' 300 species of fish.Jay Bhatt and colleagues at the University of Delhi studied distribution of fish species in 16 Himalayan rivers, thenthereforeandI don't know found that the richest in biodiversity,with the greatest number of endemic species,were also those where dams will be concentrated.