Building Process
Impregilo was involved with building the Dez dam. The water from the reservoir went to irrigate 160 square kilometres (62 sq mi), only one-fifth of the area that the dam’s designers claimed would be irrigated. The irrigated land was largely for the benefit of foreign agribusiness corporations, including Mitsui, Chase Manhattan, Bank of America, Shell, John Deere and Transworld Agricultural Development Corporation. About 17,000 farmers lost their land to agribusinesses. Years later, many were still landless and jobless. Until the overthrow of the Shah in 1979, all the foreign companies left the area. Dez Dam has now an official web page and visitors are advised to visit the page and get more exact information.
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