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Inter Press Service: The Yacyretá hydroelectric dam run by Argentina and Paraguay is fully operational, supplying the energy it was designed to provide when it was built 40 years ago. But critics complain about severe social and environmental impacts.
The giant dam on the Paraná River, which separates the two countries, left wetlands rich in biodiversity under water, hurt previously abundant fish species, and pushed some 100,000 people out of their homes in the two South American countries.
Although the original......
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Giant Dams Touted as Development
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 24th, 2011
Posted in Water Conservation