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The Three Gorges Dam project in China creates electricity and helps control floods but it has brought costs to local people and the government in Beijing.
13 paź 2009 · China is rushing to build dams along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, in part to protect the Three Gorges Dam, but can such hydropower development be done better?
24 paź 2024 · Three Gorges Dam, dam on the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) just west of the city of Yichang in China. The largest dam in the world, it allows the navigation of oceangoing freighters, generates hydroelectric power, and may offer flood protection.
Several smaller, far less expensive, and less problematic dams on the Yangtze tributaries, according to some Chinese and foreign engineers, could produce as much electricity as the Three Gorges Dam and regulate flooding almost as effectively.
24 cze 2004 · Chief among these is the Three Gorges Dam, the biggest in the world, which spans the Yangtze River: and this report highlights the Yangtze as the river most at risk, with forty-six large dams...
The construction of the world's largest dam on the world's third largest river (the Yangtze River) has displaced some 1.2 million people. The Three Gorges Dam has been one of the most controversial dam projects in the world for its social, environmental and economic impacts.
The Three Gorges Dam (simplified Chinese: 三峡大坝; traditional Chinese: 三峽大壩; pinyin: Sānxiá Dàbà) is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near Sandouping in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges.
