No, we put up reservoirs all over the country and every one of them that’s not dug on an extremely narrow and steep sloping valley has wide shallows and wetlands along the edges and up the rivers and streams that feed them.
Many of our older reservoirs in fact have silted in to the point they are not little more than man made marshes which is why they are having to replace them or clean them out.
Much less. Sea level has risen about 9 inches since 1880. However, it has risen about 2 inches in the last twenty years, mostly due to thermal expansion, not glacier and ice field melt.
It’s actually very small portion of our country, easily defined by politics, versus the world on this issue. About the same % that thought Obama was a muslin born in Kenya, isn’t that an interesting fact?
For instance, in CA, including “dams”… which are what destroy wetlands (you would know that if you had a clue)…
“Today there are more than 100 dams within the California Central Valley drainage basins and thousands of miles of water-delivery canals. Water is diverted for irrigation, hydroelectric power, and municipal and industrial water supplies. Only 14 percent of the original wetland acreage remains. The Tulare Lake Basin has been virtually drained, leaving only remnant wetland areas and a dry lakebed, and Buena Vista and Kern Lakes rarely contain water.”
Yep, and what happens to warm water? Increased evaporation. What happens to that evaporated water? More condensation. What happens to that condensation?
Take the family to the beach, unless it is on Spitzbergen, and notice that the seas have not risen, and just enjoy the legacy of Justinian and English Common Law.
Western civilization has made the world better. Enjoy.