The important role of the Dams Sector can't be overemphasized. In the United States, it is charged with the responsibility of providing crucial water retention and control services, which includes; hydroelectric power generation - significant in electricity supply, provision of water supplies for multiple urban and industrial use, enabling agricultural irrigation, ensuring sediment and flood control, facilitating river navigation for bulk shipping within land, managing industrial waste, and providing recreational activities. The services provided by the Dams Sector not only supports several critical infrastructural sectors but also sustains various industries. A significant highlight of how crucial these services are includes; giving irrigation services to approximately 10 percent of U.S. cropland, helping to shield more than 43 percent of the U.S. population from devastation by flooding, generating around 60 percent of electricity consumed in the Pacific Northwest.
Presently, the United States boasts of more than 87,000 dams. Surprisingly, about 65 percent of these dams are owned privately, while regulation and oversight is carried out by state dams safety offices for about 77 percent of them. The Dams Sector constitutes interdependencies with a considerable range of other sectors, such as:
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