Case Study: The Three Gorges Dam

Where: China                          What: A large-scale water project

• ADVANTAGES-
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• Designed to create jobs
• Provides 10% of china's electricity through HEP. Also increases tourism
• Protect farmland from flooding

• DISADVANTAGES-
• 1.3 million people will be forced to move out
• River landscape will be changed forever
• The river that will be created will become…