They Opened the Floodgates of the Itaipu and Yacyreta Dam and Increased Concern for the Paraná River

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The flood in the Paraná River threatens floods in the Littoral and complications for the countryside.Itaipu and Yacyreta dams were opened to allow water to flow, but it is generated at maximum capacity and the cost of electricity for households and the government is alleviated.

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The binational dams reported an increase in flows and warned about possible high-water scenarios between October and December; in Ciudad del Este, the flood has already forced families from low-lying areas to evacuate

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The advance of the El Niño weather phenomenon began to hit the Litoral region with force, forcing the authorities of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil to coordinate emergency maneuvers to mitigate the impact of floods. Faced with the abrupt increase in flows, the mega dams of Itaipu and Yacyretá had to open their...

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The flood of the Paraná river that forced to increase the discharges of water in the Yacyretá dam could be just the beginning of a period of several months marked by new increases of the flow. This was warned by Richard Pintar, Argentine technical chief of the Technical Department of the Binational Entity Yacyretá (EBY), who pointed out that [...] The entry “We have five or six months of uncertainty”: Yacyretá’s warning for the floods of Paraná …

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The flood of the Paraná River forced the dams of Itaipu and Yacyreta to open their floodgates to regulate the increase of the flow, in the midst of the intense rains associated with the El Niño phenomenon.The situation already caused evacuations in Paraguay and keeps under surveillance the coastal populations of northeastern Argentina, especially in Misiones and Corrientes.The authorities of both hydroelectric plants warned that the water suppli…