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Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydropower project ever built. When construction began in 1994, it was designed not only to generate electricity to propel China’s breakneck economic growth, but ...
The Three Gorges Dam stands as the largest hydroelectric dam in the world, a massive feat of engineering that has become a ...
China’s Three Gorges Dam, the world’s biggest and most controversial hydropower structure, was rumored to have been cracking and splitting as people posted satellite images of the structure ...
A person takes photos as water is released from the Three Gorges Dam, a gigantic hydropower project on the Yangtze River, to relieve flood pressure in Yichang, central China's Hubei province, July ...
BEIJING – Chinese engineers Tuesday blew up a temporary barrier used during construction of the Three Gorges Dam, unleashing the full force of the Yangtze River upon the world's largest ...
Everything about the Three Gorges dam is huge, including the number of people it has affected. The reservoir created by the dam has already displaced more than a million people. Another 80,000 are ...
After the Flood. Photoessay on Three Gorges Dam on China's mighty Yangtze River; dam is world's largest in terms of water displacement, flood control and power generation; could restrain summer ...
MIAOHE VILLAGE, China -- China's vaunted engineering marvel, the Three Gorges Dam, drew fierce criticism during its construction for uprooting more than a million people and manhandling the ...
Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydropower project ever built. When construction began in 1994, it was designed not only to generate electricity to propel China’s breakneck economic growth, but ...
After the Flood. Photoessay on Three Gorges Dam on China's mighty Yangtze River; dam is world's largest in terms of water displacement, flood control and power generation; could restrain summer ...