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1 Αυγ 2008 · “The dam's failure would result in one of the worst disasters in history,” says Zhou. Some 75 million people live directly downstream of Three Gorges. One possible—albeit improbable—trigger could be an earthquake that's off the scale for the region.
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side, the dam’s hydropower station is expected to generate...
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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.
30 Δεκ 2010 · The Three Gorges dam has produced the world’s largest planned human displacement and resettlement, involving the relocation of over 1.3 million people across a 16-year period to 2008. This mega-resettlement has radically changed the population geography of the...
Texas State Water Plan. “Despite the water-development projects completed in the past, Texas' water problems continue to grow in magnitude and complexity. The population of Texas has continued to increase at a phenomenal rate, with a corresponding acceleration in the construction of highways, schools, hospitals, and other public works.
31 Οκτ 2022 · Surface water — mainly rivers and reservoirs — accounts for roughly half of Texas’ existing water supply, and is becoming less and less reliable for the state’s fast-growing population as the...
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.
13 Ιουλ 2019 · The resulting Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) extends 660 km along the waterway of the Yangtze River in surrounded by complicated terrain. The dam and its impounded reservoir has triggered large-scale land use and land cover change, which can potentially impact the environment and climate significantly.
