The Aswan Dam, for example stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt that floods left - all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity.
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- 比如阿斯旺大坝,阻挡了尼罗河的洪水,但却使埃及失去了洪水所能留下来的肥沃的淤泥,所有的这一切都是为了换得一个巨型的但却(给人们带来)疾病丛生的水库,这个水库现在充满了那么多的淤泥,基本上它已无法发电。