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Cumulative amount of water impoundment in artificial reservoirs as a function of time during the last century, with the equivalent sea level drop on the right-hand scale. The blue dashed curve is the nominal capacity, and the red curve is the “actual” impoundment (see text). Also shown is the continental breakdown. The inset is the per-year water impoundment
