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23 lip 2020 · The image at the top of this page shows water moving through the gates of Three Gorges Dam. Spanning a segment of the Yangtze River in central China’s Hubei Province, the dam is 2300 meters long and stands 185 meters high. The second image shows the smaller Gezhouba Dam, located about 26 kilometers (16 miles) southeast from Three Gorges.
An important function of the dam is to control flooding, which is a major problem for the seasonal river of the Yangtze. Millions of people live downstream of the dam, with many large, important cities like Wuhan , Nanjing , and Shanghai located adjacent to the river.
14 gru 2020 · In 2020, growing fears of a potential breach of the Yangtze River were compounded by three months of extreme flooding in the southern provinces, reaching levels not seen since 1981, when the country experienced its worst floods in a century.
7 sie 2020 · Chongqing, which sits at the headwaters of the dam on the Yangtze River, began experiencing torrential rain and severe flooding on July 15.
25 sie 2020 · Tens of thousands of residents have been forced from their homes, hundreds have been killed, and authorities now warn that the Three Gorges Dam is facing the largest flood peak in its history.
20 sie 2020 · Flooding along southern China's Yangtze River has forced more than 100,000 people from their homes. Heavy rains began this past weekend of August 15 and have continued steadily, leading to...
Yangtze River floods, floods of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) in central and eastern China that have occurred periodically and often have caused considerable destruction of property and loss of life. Among the most recent major flood events are those of 1870, 1931, 1954, 1998, 2010, and 2020.
