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> 18-February-2013 / Environmental announcements The Guardian: Romanian Mountain Rivers are disappearing due to corruption while hydro energy is bloomingRivers in the Carpathian Mountains are drying up or are hidden in thick metal pipes, given the allegations of corruption surrounding the development of hydro energy plant in the south of the Carpathians. In the wild Meridional Carpathians, in the Fagaras Mountains, Bogdan Binescu, a fisherman and environmental activist, stops near the clear waters of a mountain stream: "The river used to be the only way back to civilization." |