The building of dam caused a lot of arguments and misunderstandings. Some researchers suppose that this dam inflict irreparable damages on unique nature of the region. When the dam was built, about 700 square meters of rainforests were flooded. These tropical forests had a lot of endemic plants. Not only nature suffered heavy losses but also people. 9 000 people have to leave their private houses because they were at risk of flooding.
This problem didn’t fall on deaf ears. The director Chow Lam paid a lot of attention to the dam’s building. He did a documental movie consists of 5 series. Every series is devoted to one major problem of dam building. Today it is planned to build a number of new hydroelectric power stations. Thousands of people vote against such innovations. During the building could be flooded valuable rainforests and tens of thousands of people have to find new places for living.
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