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Guardian: At the foot of a towering gorge slicing through southern Ethiopia the Omo river suddenly disappears into a tunnel bored into the rockface. Excavators claw at the soil and stone in the exposed riverbed beyond, where a giant concrete wall will soon appear in the ravine. At 243 metres the Gibe III dam will be the highest on the continent, a controversial centrepiece of Ethiopia's extraordinary multibillion-pound hydroelectric boom. The country that prides itself as "The Water ......
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Ethiopia’s rush to build mega dams sparks protests
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 25th, 2010
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