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Brazilian Dams
A grand scheme that the Brazilian Government used was to build a dam in 1984. It was the fourth largest dam in the world and it cost 5 billion dollars. The Brazilian government plans to build more dams in the amazon to harness the power of various rivers with money borrowed from other countries. The idea of dams such as these is to generate cheap electricity for Brazilian industrustys. The water held back by the dams has flooded a huge area of forest. The forest wasn’t cleared, (though it should have been) so the tops of dead trees stick out of the water. Rotting vegitation posions the water and unpleasent smells and diseases spread around the lake. The water has become acid, and it is corroding the turbines on the dam. All the animals suffer
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