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The village is essentially surrounded by virgin forest and has no well water and therefore is reliant on the Xingu River for drinking and cooking.
FORBES: Amazon Tribe Says Brazil's "Pandora" Dam Polluting River
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Hundreds of acres of virgin forest will be inundated with water in order to build the reservoir to power the turbines that will generate electricity.
FORBES: Ex-Pres Clinton Criticizes Hydroelectricity in Amazon
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To consider yourself a Christian, must you believe in the Virgin Birth, or that Jesus walked on water, healed the sick, and rose triumphantly from the dead?
CNN: Seeking the truth about Jesus
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Ten of the Virgin Atlantic's frequent fliers recently worked with the airline, Sarova Hotels and charity Water for All to help rebuild a school in the Masai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya.
CNN: Giving something back
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"The issue is that dumping impoverished peasants on geometrically-plotted patches of virgin non-arable land, without any infrastructure, tillage equipment, venture capital, housing, water supplies, or training will result quite simply in an ecological disaster, " says Professor du Toit.
BBC: Zimbabwe wildlife 'face disaster'