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Ð Dialogue is important. What country closes its embassy in a country and thinks that it's business as usual the next day if the embassy is still closed, says Joseph Elim from the peace network Riam Riam in Turkana. Ethiopian authorities haven't yet visited Turkana to see how the dam will affect the region's inhabitants. Construction of the Gibe 3 dam was approved in 2003 as part of a plan to triple Ethiopia's energy production. But international experts and researchers predict it will also cut off up to 90 percent of Lake Turkana's only reliable tributary, the Omo, and the water level in the lake is expected to drop between 10 and 12 meters. A strangled fresh water supply will in turn raise the salinity of the lake which would have a devastating effect on the lake's ecosystem. Over half a million people in the area would be forced to flee lest they starve. (KEYSTONE/KONTINENT/Jacob Zocherman)