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Guardian: The big, bad dams of past decades are back in style.
In the 1950s and '60s, huge hydropower projects such as the Kariba, Akosombo and Inga dams were supposed to modernise poor African countries almost overnight. It didn't work out this way. As the independent World Commission on Dams found, such big, complex schemes cost far more but produce less energy than expected. Their primary beneficiaries are mining companies and aluminium smelters, while Africa's poor have been left high and dry.
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The World Bank is bringing back big, bad dams
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 16th, 2013
Posted in Water Conservation