Three gorges Dam
- Created by: Hannah Jeffery
- Created on: 10-02-15 17:19
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- Three gorges Dam
- location
- On the Yangtze river
- North china
- Qinnai province
- Cost
- china released the figure $62 billion
- doesn't include the price of running the three gorges dam
- or the building of the 13 new water treatment plants to clean the water
- china released the figure $62 billion
- Size
- Yangtze river is the largest river in china
- third largest in the world
- dam is 1.4 miles long and 185 metres tall
- Yangtze river is the largest river in china
- Purpose
- produces hydro electricity
- 5%
- making china's development greener
- reduces green house gases
- reduce potential for floods downstream by providing flood storage space
- Yangtze floods have killed 320,00 people
- increase the rivers navigation capacity
- aiding businesses
- industry
- opportunity for recreational activities
- eg river cruise
- produces hydro electricity
- Length of construction
- construction began in 1994 and finished in 2009
- Advantages
- political
- sets a blue print for other countries
- Shows that the country is wealthy and strong
- economic
- Hydroelectric power can be sold to cover construction costs
- 5000 jobs created
- navigation improvements increases business to places such as Pudong
- decrease water insecurity
- increase irrigation for farmers
- China's GDP increase by 22%
- economic growth of $82 billion
- social
- increase life expectancy
- provide clean drinking water
- environmental
- green way to provide flood protection
- reduces air pollution
- Renewable energy source
- political
- Disadvantages
- Political
- increases threat of terrorists
- Economic
- fishing industry lost
- 1500 factories lost
- people have to buy bottles water due to polluted water supllies
- Social
- relocation of 1.2 millions people
- livelihood lost
- lower quality of land to where they're moving to
- poorer soil quality, steeper slopes and poorer quality of life
- loss of cultural heritage
- 2 million cases of cancer caused by the high arsenic water content
- 80% of rural areas have no access to sanitary toilet
- increase of water Bourne disease
- relocation of 1.2 millions people
- environmental
- severable dams would of been more effective in terms of flood control, cost effectiveness and would of had fewer impacts
- loss of farmland
- decrease biodiversity
- increase of pollution from sewage and industrial waste
- large volume of water increase earthquake threat
- affect ecosystem
- nutrient flows blocked
- change in water temperature
- Political
- location
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