- Ali Askouri, Chairman, Alliance of the Dam Affected Communities in the Sudan.
Dam-affected communities have often suffered repression and human rights abuses.
Without such mitigation, roads can harm habitats, dams displace communities and slum rebuilding hurt livelihoods.
"The dam safety community hasn't really collected a lot of information on the population at risk," he told HuffPost.
However, the extent of health impact of hydroelectric dams on local communities closer to such dams is less studied.
The ruling by the Supreme Court president, Carlos Ayres Britto, late Monday overturned an order by a lower court that suspended work on the $11 billion, 11,000-megawatt Belo Monte hydroelectric dam until indigenous communities living in the area were consulted.
The South African government, whose water minister had chaired the Commission, used the WCD recommendations to prepare an innovative program to share the benefits of the Maguga Dam with the communities affected by it.
How these dams may affect communities and ecosystems in neighboring downstream countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan is little discussed.
Months before her murder, she had reported a number of serious threats related to her outspoken opposition of the construction of the Agua Zarca dam in the community of Río Blanco, in north-western Honduras.
It is the harvest in the highlands that really matters; the Eritrean government insists that people there have enough food.Farming in the highlands depends on water from small dams that local communities built for themselves as part of an official self-reliance campaign.
But it's the magnitude of the massive coal slurry impoundments and dams hovering above communities in the mountains of the Appalachian coalfields that bring home the sickening images of the Gulf oil spill.
