Viewpoint – Decision Making on Amazon Dams: Politics Trumps Uncertainty in the Madeira River Sediments Controversy
The Madeira River, an Amazon tributary draining parts of Bolivia, Peru and Brazil, has one of the highest sediment loads in the world. The questions of how these sediments would affect the Santo Antônio and Jirau hydroelectric dams, now under construction in Brazil, and how the dams would affect sed...
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Water Alternatives Association
2013-06-01
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| Online Access: | http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol6/v6issue2/218-a6-2-15/file |