ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Yaciretá dam

Okay kiddo, so you know how sometimes we have a lot of water in rivers, like when it's been raining a lot? Well, some people build big walls called dams across the river to stop the water from flowing and make a lake! Yaciretá is one of these big dams built in South America, in a country called Paraguay.

The Yaciretá dam was built to make electricity by using the power of the water in the river to spin big turbines that make electricity. That's like when we turn on a light switch, the electricity comes from the dams like Yaciretá.

But building a dam can be a big job, and it's important to do it carefully. The people who built Yaciretá had to make sure that the dam was strong enough to hold back all the water in the river so it wouldn't flood the towns and cities nearby. They also had to make sure that the water wouldn't destroy the land and trees around it.

So that's the Yaciretá dam! It's kind of like a big wall that stops the water from flowing, and it produces electricity for lots of people to use.