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Three Gorges Dam |
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In With The New
When completed in 2009, the Three Gorges Dam will be the largest hydroelectric
dam in the world. Stretching a mile across the Yangtze and rising six hundred feet, it will be visible from the moon!
It's purpose is to bring much needed power to inland China and to control the periodic desructive flooding of the Yangtze, but it
will also displace more than a million people, submerge ancient temples and burial grounds, endanger or wipe out
rare animnals like the Yangtze River dolphin, and cover some of the world's most magnificent scenery.
And Out With The Old
The Destruction of Fengdu
The city of Fengu will be covered by the rising waters and, like the
other doomed cities, is being torn down so as not to be a menance to navigation. However, the
Ghost City part atop Mt. Minshan (now reached via a ski lift) will survive at the new water level.
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These markers show how high the water is going to rise, to one hundred seventy-five meters. |
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The cities are being torn down by hand, literally
brick by brick. |
Vist PBS
for more information about the dam.