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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.
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. Learn more about the Three Gorges Dam.
27 sie 2021 · For example, a simile is a sentence that says “X is like Y” or “X is as Y as.”. A metaphor is a sentence that says “X is Y.”. Both are comparisons, but there are differences in the way they’re put together.
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.
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?
5 paź 2020 · The expected resurrection of a controversial dam project along the Yangtze River in western China is the latest sign that the nation’s once-robust environmental movement is being muzzled by the government's crackdown on NGOs and its near-total control over social media.
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...
