The Three Gorges Dam, China
The Three Gorge Dam: Advantages, Disadvantages, Economic, Social and Environmental benefits and costs.
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- Created on: 21-10-13 18:01
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- The Three Gorges Dam, China
- 181m high and 2.3km wide
- Disadvantages
- 250 million tonnes of silt deposited behind dam- reduces capacity of resevoir
- Water in reservoir becoming polluted from shipping and waste
- Toxic substances from factories, mines and waste tips submerged by reservoir and are being released into reservoir.
- 1.4 million people forcibly moved from homes
- $30 million of compensation funds been taken by corrupt officials
- Cost $25.5 billion
- Advantages
- Reduces risk of flooding from a 1 in 10 year even to a 1 in 100 year event
- Benefits 15 million people living in high flood risk areas
- Protects over 25,000 ha of farmland
- Has had a positive impact on flood control, navigation and power generation
- Started building 1994 and finished 2006
- Economic
- COST: Loads of money has to be paid back for compensation
- BENEFIT: Money that has been spent could be well spent
- Social
- COST: 1.4 million people forced out of home, may have no where to live and livelihoods lost
- BENEFIT: Has had a positive impact on navigation
- Environmental
- BENEFITS: Floods are being stopped because of dam in place
- COST: Reservoir being polluted from factories and ships and animals are being killed
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