The Itapu Damn is the biggest hydro electricity power station in the world and supplys 90% of all Paraguays electricity and 30% of Brazils.
The company who run the power station have come under fire and are subsequnetly very concerned about their image. They flooded this valley to create a 170sq km resevoir and go to great lengths on the FREE tour to stress that as both being an environmentally and morally conscious company, they saved up to 900 different species of rare birds, plants and animals before they dynamited the overflow resevoir to create this one. They also claim to pay out each year to the 1000s of indigenous people they had to relocate.
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