https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hydroelectric_power_st...
> 1,917 deaths
> 26,000 dead from flooding, 145,000 dead from subsequent famine and epidemics, 11 million homeless.
> 1800 - 25000 people killed
> 75 fatalities, due to turbine failure
There's also the part where we have tapped out the Earth's exploitable hydro capacity. Hydro output is expected to grow by ~20% by 2050. [1]
Unfortunately, it needs to grow by ~200%, if we want it to replace even half of the electricity currently generated by coal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectricity#Future_potent...
Dams hold back silt and sediment essential to farm land and despite everything you learned about fish ladders and salmon, they don't really work as well as the power companies say.
Plus carbon pollutants are known to be carcinogenic.
