Sentences with phrase «largest dam builder»

In awarding the prize, the Goldman Prize committee said, «In a country with growing socioeconomic inequality and human rights violations, Berta Cáceres rallied the indigenous Lenca people of Honduras and waged a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world's largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam.»

• Berta Cáceres, Honduras, who rallied the indigenous Lenca people to pressure the world's largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam.

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The dam builders have tried to address one of the problems with traditional dams by designing projects that divert water through tunnels to power turbines rather than constructing large reservoirs, and by capturing silt and sending it back into the riverbeds.