An international tribunal is set to review the construction of a controversial dam in northern Jalisco next week, in the first of many hearings to take place in Mexico over the next three years.
Built at a cost of 2.4 billion pesos, the Zapotillo dam will provide water for 2.4 million inhabitants of 14 municipalities in Jalisco and Guanajuato state over the next 25 years. Work on the dam is over 53 percent complete, while construction of a 6.87-billion-peso aqueduct linking the resultant reservoir with the city of Leon will begin this month.
Both projects are due for completion in 2013, with Mexico’s Supreme Court having dismissed a petition by inhabitants of Temacapulin, Acasico and Palmarejo – communities that will be flooded by the reservoir – to halt the project.
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