The river that can't be tamed: how one stretch of water in Albania became the last wild river in Europe

The river that can't be tamed: how one stretch of water in Albania became the last wild river in Europe

Almost every large river in Europe has been altered by human engineering. Dams, weirs, canalisation, diversion, straightening, sluice gates. In some cases the alteration is centuries old and forms part of the landscape people expect. In others it happened within living memory. Either way, the continent that gave the world hydropower has left itself with only a handful of rivers that still flow the way rivers flowed before industrial civilisation…