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Ethiopian Dam Threatens to Destroy Indigenous Livelihoods and the World’s Largest Desert Lake
Posted by Sandra Postel of National Geographic's Freshwater Initiative in Water Currents on January 11, 2013
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Over the last century, the construction of big dams to generate power, supply water and control floods has unleashed a damaging cascade of social and environmental consequences – including the destruction of fisheries, subsistence farmlands, homes and communities. More than 470 million people around the world are estimated to be suffering from these and other…
