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seriously depleted the project’s structures and operating rule may be modified to achieve a sediment balance and sustainable operation. The key to sustaining operation is to identify the desired outcome and management strategy as early as possible, and to implement the required modifications while there is still time to save a significant portion of the storage volume.

Note 1. “Overview” (http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/sustainabledevelopment/overview).

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