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23 lip 2020 · Today the watershed is dotted with tens of thousands of reservoirs, and its rivers are spanned by numerous dams. During the 2020 summer monsoon, floodwater was being held, or “absorbed,” by 2,297 reservoirs in the region, including the one behind Three Gorges Dam.
21 sie 2020 · The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is nearing capacity after weeks of record floods in China. Authorities have had to reassure people the massive structure will hold.
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.
16 lip 2024 · Water gushes out from the Three Gorges Dam through nine of its flood discharge gates to spare more capacity for incoming floods from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, in central China's Hubei Province, July 15, 2024.
Several dams across the country's largest fresh water lake, Poyang, have burst, with the lake reaching record water levels, according to data from China's National Weather Satellite Centre.
20 sie 2020 · Beijing — Heavy rainfall has swelled China's Yangtze River, threatening UNESCO World Heritage Sites and forcing officials to reassure nervous citizens that the world's largest hydroelectric...
20 sie 2020 · The deluge has tested a massive network of tens of thousands of dams and levees built by the Chinese government along the Yangtze River and its tributaries to minimise damage from annual...
