FORBES • October 8, 2025
Dam Removal Day is a time to reflect on and celebrate the progress made in restoring our rivers and the critical biodiversity they support. To date, the damage from 9,003 European dams and weirs has been undone. The success of Dam Removal Europe in drawing global attention to this problem has led the good people at DamRemoval.eu to expand the holiday globally. Dams are outdated, futile, dangerous, and we should remove most of them while prohibiting the construction of new projects. The United States has removed more than 2,100 dams and plans to remove 30,000 by 2050. This is a bipartisan effort that is succeeding in the most contentious of political climates because it’s such a fundamental and important issue. Let us stop building them, and where the damage has been done let us work together to remove dams and undo this disfigurement, restoring nature to how it should be.