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    The document discusses how a dam was built at a river draining into Chini Lake in Malaysia to prevent tourists from getting their feet wet. However, the dam has now drowned thousands of surrounding trees and is threatening fisheries. It tells a cautionary tale of how infrastructure developed for tourism can damage the environment.

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    The document discusses how a dam was built at a river draining into Chini Lake in Malaysia to prevent tourists from getting their feet wet. However, the dam has now drowned thousands of surrounding trees and is threatening fisheries. It tells a cautionary tale of how infrastructure developed for tourism can damage the environment.

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    The document discusses how a dam was built at a river draining into Chini Lake in Malaysia to prevent tourists from getting their feet wet. However, the dam has now drowned thousands of surrounding trees and is threatening fisheries. It tells a cautionary tale of how infrastructure developed for tourism can damage the environment.

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    Main Pain: Another example of the tourist industry in being the cause of pollution is the water area.

    At Chini Lake (Tasik Chini), ust so that !eco"tourists! don!t ha#e to get their feet wet, the $o#ernment built a dam at the ri#er draining %ahang!s Tasik Chini. &ut now the dam has drowned thousands of trees surrounding the lake, threatening fisheries as well. 'n a cautionary tale of the times, Andrew (ia who won the 'C'"CC) *n#ironmental +ournalism Award (,onourable )ention) for his -../ story, 0amming the Lotus Lake, re#isits Tasik Chini to seek out the real picture behind the ostensible !tourist pampering! rationale of the dam.

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