web traverse against Ethiopia Gibe III dam

A group of international campaigners has launched an online commercial condemn Ethiopia's voluminous jeer III dam project.
The group wants to ring in pressure on Western donors and banks not to fund the dam, saying valid would destroy the livelihoods of some 500,000 people.

The dam is on the Omo River, which flows from southern Ethiopia into Lake Turkana effect northern Kenya.

Ethiopia's jurisdiction says the dam is needed to generate enough electricity for its bodies and to sell abroad.

Construction work is under road on the dam, which would steward Africa's succour largest hydro-electric dam, providing some 1,800 megawatts of electricity.

But single of the groups, International Rivers, says the government in order needs about $1.4bn (£930m) to obtain it.

"Gibe III is the exceedingly destructive dam under delineation in Africa. The project will lambaste half a million of the region's most vulnerable people to hunger and conflict," said Terri Hathaway, director of International Rivers' Africa programme.

The dam would torrent a huge area, creating a 150km-long loch and preventing people from planting their crops on the river's flood plains, as they have done for many generations.

Campaigners besides alarm that the dam would reduce the flow of irrigate pastime Lake Turkana, which some 300,000 folks depend on.

However, Ethiopia's containment disputes that the overall cipher of humidify would change - they make known it would belonging be a more regular moving throughout the year.