Hydropower in Vietnam: Full to bursting

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Hydropower in Vietnam

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Hydro-electric projects can spell trouble for the rural poor

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Farmer’s friend or foe?

Farmer’s friend or foe?

ONE moment Dao A Phau was sitting in his riverside home in Ho, a mountain village not far from Vietnam’s border with China; the next he was under three feet (a metre) of water. The deluge came from a burst giant metal pipe supposed to channel water from a reservoir higher up to an electricity-generation station in the village. After that incident in 2010, Mr Phau was moved to higher ground and given ,000 by the Vietnamese firm responsible for the hydroelectric project. Yet the soil is poorer, and he can no longer grow enough rice to sell. He finds himself 0 worse off each year.
Hydropower has boomed in Vietnam over the past decade and now generates more than a third of the country’s …

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Hydropower in Vietnam: Full to bursting