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23 lip 2020 · The image at the top of this page shows water moving through the gates of Three Gorges Dam. Spanning a segment of the Yangtze River in central China’s Hubei Province, the dam is 2300 meters long and stands 185 meters high.
An important function of the dam is to control flooding, which is a major problem for the seasonal river of the Yangtze. Millions of people live downstream of the dam, with many large, important cities like Wuhan , Nanjing , and Shanghai located adjacent to the river.
7 sie 2020 · Chongqing, which sits at the headwaters of the dam on the Yangtze River, began experiencing torrential rain and severe flooding on July 15. Tremendous downpours beginning that day caused severe flooding across the city, with 188,025 people in 19 districts and countries affected, as well as 1,000 houses destroyed and 6,000 hectares of crops ...
30 lip 2010 · Pictures: Huge Jets Shoot From Dam During China Floods. Three Gorges Gush Torrents of floodwater sluice through the Three Gorges Dam (map) in a picture taken Monday in Yichang, China. The...
25 sie 2020 · An aerial view of the Kwanyin Temple in the middle of the flooded Yangtze River on July 24, 2020, in Ezhou, China. The temple, on a rocky island in the mighty river, was first built in 1345,...
16 lip 2020 · Over the last few days, floods have overwhelmed parts of central and eastern China. Several dams across the country's largest fresh water lake, Poyang, have burst, with the lake reaching record...
28 lip 2020 · Water was seen moving through the gates of the Three Gorges Dam to the smaller Gezhouba Dam, around 26 kilometres southeast Floodwater from reservoirs in the Yangtze river basin in China was discharged after excess rain since the onset of the monsoon beginning June 1, 2020.
