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12 Ιουλ 2024 · Record rainfall in Chongqing has caused flooding in a dozen districts and counties since Thursday, raising the water levels in 29 rivers, state news agency Xinhua reported. Six people have died...
22 Αυγ 2020 · CHONGQING -- Water levels at China's Three Gorges Dam set fresh records on Friday despite a gradual decline in inflows, doing little to assuage concerns of a possible collapse that would affect...
21 Αυγ 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.
23 Ιουν 2020 · As many as 400 million lives may be at risk as torrential rain in China threatens the world’s largest dam. The Chinese government has moved to defend the structural integrity of the massive Three Gorges Dam, as a hydrology expert took to international media over the weekend to warn it could collapse at any moment.
Threateningly high water levels caused by high inflows indicate that the dam cannot contain floodwaters, as promised. For these reasons, and in order to produce a clear-eyed analysis of the costs and benefits of the Three Gorges Dam, we are tracking the daily Three Gorges reservoir level here.
18 Ιουλ 2020 · Three floodgates of the Three Gorges Dam that spans the Yangtze were opened as the water level behind the massive dam rose more than 15 meters (50 feet) above flood level, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
26 Οκτ 2022 · The drought in China’s Sichuan Province this year that led to widespread power cuts may just be a sign of things to come. Water woes are also hitting the massive Three Gorges Dam.