Family to be relocated by the Renaissance Dam on the Nile in Ethiopia © J.C. Veilleux 2012 In response to recent discourse in Science's Magazine that discuss economic, biodiversity, and political impacts of wide-spread and large-scale dam development on the world's most iconic tropical rivers: the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong in article by Winemiller et. al Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong in January 2016 and feature article by Erik Stokstad