Three gorge dam
The Three Gorges Dam is the world’s largest hydro-power project and most notorious dam. The massive project sets records for number of people displaced (more than 1.2 million), number of cities and towns flooded (13 cities, 140 towns, 1,350 villages), and length of reservoir (more than 600 kilometers). The project has been plagued by corruption, spiraling costs, environmental impacts, human rights violations and resettlement difficulties.
The environmental impacts of the project are profound and is likely to worsen over time. Sinking hundreds of factories, mines and landfills, and the presence of massive industrial centers upstream and creating a festering bog of effluent, silt and industrial pollution and waste in the tank. The erosion of the banks of rivers and reservoirs downstream caused landslides, and threatening one of the world’s largest fisheries in the East China Sea. Weight of water in the tank has many scientists concerned about resulting seismic reservoir. Critics also argue that the project may exacerbate the recent drought by withholding supply to downstream water users and critical ecosystems, and by creating a climate for its gigantic warehouse. In 2011, the highest governmental body in China for the first time officially acknowledged “urgent problems” of the Three Gorges Dam.
Three Gorges Dam is a model for disaster, but Chinese companies to replicate this model both locally and internationally. Within China, has proposed Falls huge hydroelectric and is being built in some river basins, the most pristine and biological and cultural diversity in China – the Lancang (Upper Mekong) River, Nu (Salween) and upstream River Three Gorges on the Yangtze River and its tributaries.
Through this project, China know-how to prepare large hydropower plant.
As we know that Three Gorges is the world’s biggest hydro project, the problems of its are not common. Around the world, large dams are causing social and environmental problems while better alternatives are being ignored.
International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of the communities which depend on them. We monitor the social and environmental problems of the Three Gorges Dam, and work to ensure that the right lessons are drawn for energy and water projects in China and around the world.
The Three Gorges Dam-World’s largest hydro-power project
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