Hasta la Victoria: La Parota Dam Cancelled
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Social
After nearly 10 years of campaigning, La Parota Dam was officially cancelled. This is an amazing victory for the communities in Mexico - especially the Council of Communal Land Owners and Communities Against Construction of La Parota Dam (CECOP) - who have been fighting the project from the beginning, and the larger movement in Latin America fighting to protect their rivers and human rights.
La Parota would have consisted of a 900 MW dam on the Papagayo River 28 km from the city of Acapulco in the state of Guerrero. It would have flooded close to 17,000 hectares of land, displaced more than 25,000 people, and affected another 75,000 people downstream of the dam.
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