The problem is the massive flooding way past the typical riverbed because of the massive amount of water waiting to be released. If they slowly emptied the lake it would be very different where the water line goes.
Floods are a good thing for soil fertility. Not much else.
Farms often are on land that is likely to see small amounts of flooding regularly.
Farms feed people. People like to be fed.
Also water is pretty crucial.
Just slowly zoom into the Nile river somewhere well south of Egypt, and you’ll see there is more or less NOTHING that is not within 10 miles of the river.
So stop building towns in flood plains.
The problem is the massive flooding way past the typical riverbed because of the massive amount of water waiting to be released. If they slowly emptied the lake it would be very different where the water line goes.
People historically commune near flood plains.
Floods are a good thing for soil fertility. Not much else.
Farms often are on land that is likely to see small amounts of flooding regularly.
Farms feed people. People like to be fed.
Also water is pretty crucial.
Just slowly zoom into the Nile river somewhere well south of Egypt, and you’ll see there is more or less NOTHING that is not within 10 miles of the river.
A good chunk of the Midwest would be wiped out if the dams along the Missouri failed in sequence. There’s a ridiculous amount of water there.