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The construction of the Three Gorges Dam creates enormous hydroelectric power, while it also causes some negative environmental impacts.
25 mar 2008 · The reservoir created by Three Gorges dam threatens to flood the habitats of those species along with over 400 others, says Jianguo Liu, an ecologist at Michigan State University and guest ...
November 24, 2021. China's Three Gorges Dam. The Three Gorges Dam, identified on the map to the right, is located in Yichang, Hubei on the Yangtze River, downstream of the Three Gorges. It was completed in 2006 and reached its full generating capacity in 2012 ( Three Gorges Dam, 2021).
Concerns about the dam include an array of environmental impacts, the forced relocation of over a million residents, initiation of large landslides and earthquakes by the rising reservoir, and flooding of important historic and cultural sites in the gorge upstream of the dam.
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.
The natural disasters of 2020 — a record twenty-one floods by September, with 833 rivers rising above ‘warning levels’, and 267 of those reaching over official safety levels — have revived this debate and brought the monumental Three Gorges Dam under fresh scrutiny.
The Three Gorges Dam had both positive and negative impacts that came along with its huge energy generation capacity. One of the huge impacts that the dam had was on the farmers and other people living in the reservoir area.
