The bank's dam funding will rise to $1.3 billion in fiscal year 2011, up from $800 million in 2008.
The Kariba Dam on the Zambezi was built in the 1950s to power Zambia's copper belt, as the first large dam funded by the World Bank.
The Pak Mun Dam, funded partially by the World Bank, was built in 1994 and slowly became the focus of national controversy.
Instead of money going to public projects - repairing bridges, fixing dams, funding schools - it will go to Apple.
In the former instance, his radio documentary about the environmental consequences of a hydroelectric dam in Panama funded by a Dutch bank prompted questions in the Dutch parliament.
One of the water storage projects Nunes has championed, the Temperance Flat Dam, was denied funding earlier this year, after a commission determined the reservoir would not provide enough public benefit to justify the investment.
The Myitsone dam – which is being funded by China Power Investment – is part of a cascade of hydropower projects that are being built largely to sell energy across the border.
The World Bank, who funded the dam construction, insists on compliance.
CABEI, which is funding the dam with $24 million, and Voith-Siemens, which is supplying the turbines for the project, have so far remained silent about the case.
The World Bank has decided once again to get more deeply involved in funding dams.
Another sign of hydropower's resurgence is the World Bank's decision to once again get more deeply involved in the business of funding dams.
