"These infrastructures are ageing and we have to rehabilitate regarding security, energy production, and also ecological rehabilitation," he added.
"Rehabilitation is very important for our structures related to hydropower and flood protection," the LCH`s Giovanni de Cesare, said.
Given the scale of many hydropower facilities, their impact can be considerable, whether it be the displacement of local people or damage to wildlife.
A great deal of emphasis is placed on the maintenance of hydropower facilities.
"This Laboratory was created in parallel with the development of water infrastructure in Switzerland ? mainly (the) construction of dams, but also of course hydropower," Anton Schleiss, head of the LCH and president of the International Commission on Large Dams, told CNBC`s Sustainable Energy.
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