The Real Cost Of Dams
25 November 2000 - 10:00am
A new study investigates the "environmental, economic and social impacts of the world's 45,000 large dams."
"For the first time a comprehensive effort has been made to analyse the environmental, economic and social impacts of the world's 45,000 large dams. The World Commission on Dams has spent two years gathering data on 1,000 of them, soliciting the views of governments and non-governmental groups. This week South Africa's Nelson Mandela unveiled the result. The conclusion is bleak."
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The Economist, November 16, 2000
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