In 1984 the World Bank demanded that complete environmental impact assessments be submitted for every large-scale water project that it was asked to finance. Work on dams in planning or under construction in many countries stopped.
一九八四年開始，世界銀行要求每個貸款興建大水壩的案子，需提出完備的環境影響評估與保護文化財產、土地的方案；不少國家計畫興建與正興建中的水壩也紛紛停工。