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20 lip 2024 · Due to the heavy rains in upstream Sichuan and Shaanxi, the water levels in the Fujiang River, a tributary of the Jialing River, rose rapidly. By 9:00 AM on July 18, the flow rate at the Xiaoheba...
22 lip 2024 · A boy stands in a park flooded by heavy rains along the Yangtze river in Wuhan, China on July 2. Stringer/Getty Images. Summer of devastating floods shows steep challenge for China as it...
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.
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...
The peak of the Yangtze River's fifth flood of this year entered the Three Gorges Reservoir in central China's Hubei Province on August 19. The estimated maximum floodwater is 75,000 cubic meters per second, which marks the largest flood peak since the construction of the Three Gorges Dam.
12 lip 2024 · The Three Gorges Dam, China’s largest, is on high alert as floods triggered by torrential rains wreak havoc in the southwestern part of the country.
The 1935 Yangtze flood struck China during a decade of flooding, ... Floods large enough to overflow the dikes have caused great distress to those who live and farm there. [3] ... plans to create a dam across the Yangtze River were first proposed in the early 1900s. In the wake of the 1935 and 1954 floods, there was increased public support for ...
