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by nayuki 648 days ago
Hydroelectricity causes pollution. Flooding a piece of land causes more conversion of metallic mercury to organic methylmercury.

> Increased methylmercury concentrations in water and fish have been detected after flooding of soils associated with reservoir creation (e.g. for hydroelectric power generation)

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylmercury#Environmental_so...