Three Gorge Dam China

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Three Gorge Dam China

Advantages

  • Produces hydroelectric power
  • Provides flood control
  • Improved trade
  • Less air pollution due to less coal-fired power stations

Disadvantages

  • 1.3 million forced to relocate.
  • 1300 archaeological sites flooded
  • Chinese river dolphin and Siberian crane threatened by dam
  • Reservoir becomes polluted
  • Rice farmers do not benefit
  • Lake to stilt up in the next 50 years
  • Built on fault lines, at risk of an Earthquake.
  • Fishing communities gone

Evaluation

The local people have suffered, while the overall people and government have benefited from the project.

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