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This paper was prepared as a contribution to a review of environmental issues associated with large dams the World Bank and the NGOs. At the heart of the NGO criticism of large dams is a belief that if there were an accurate accounting of all environmental and social impacts, and full considerations of alternatives, rational decision makers would decide not to build large dams and would instead rely on alternative ways of proving the services the dams were intended to supply...