Category: Yangtze Floods and Drought
Three Gorges aggravates downstream water shortage
By Other News Sources on May 25, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )
(May 25, 2011) Contradicting official claims that the Three Gorges reservoir plays no part in exacerbating the drought in the Yangtze River basin, Ma Jun of the Beijing-based Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, a non-government organization, told Reuters: "Without the Three Gorges Dam, the water level in the Yangtze would not be that low." Faced with the downstream drought crisis, Three Gorges officials have been ordered to release water, thus hampering their ability to generate power. Added Ma: "Fundamentally there is a conflict between hydropower generation and water supply, irrigation, and navigation."
Controversial Three Gorges dam has problems, admits China
By Patricia Adams on May 19, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )
(May 19, 2011) The world's largest hydroelectric project was designed to tame the flood-prone Yangtze River and to generate clean energy. But the water is becoming polluted, and regular landslides are making life near the dam dangerous. Three Gorges dam is "a classic case in which government officials exaggerated the benefits and underestimated the risks," says Patricia Adams of Probe International.
Severe drought saps Chinese power output
(May 18, 2011) Water depth at Three Gorges Dam stood at 154.8 meters on Tuesday afternoon.
The Three Gorges Dam's new normal: failure
By Lisa Peryman on May 18, 2011 • ( 1 Comment )
(May 18, 2011) China's drought has caused the Three Gorges reservoir level to drop precipitously, crippling the mighty Three Gorges Dam. Shipping on the Yangtze River has now halted, power generation has been compromised, and geological hazards are heightened.
Dai Qing: On The Completion of the Three Gorges Project
By Dai Qing on April 7, 2011 • ( 1 Comment )
(April 7, 2011) Dai Qing, Chinese investigative journalist and Probe International Fellow, delivered the following speech about the Three Gorges Dam project in November 2010 while on a speaking tour in British Columbia, Canada. In her address, she reports that the problems predicted by dam critics published in her books, "Yangtze! Yangtze!" and "The River Dragon Has Come!," are now coming true.
Huang Wanli's predictions for the Three Gorges come to pass
By Dai Qing on June 12, 2010 • ( Leave a comment )
(June 12, 2010) Huang Wanli, renowned hydraulics engineer and Tsinghua University lecturer, first voiced his opposition to the large-scale damming of rivers by opposing the construction of the Sanmenxia dam in 1957. In the 1980s he became a vocal opponent of the Three Gorges project and contributed to Yangtze! Yangtze!, the important critique of the dam compiled by China's celebrated investigative journalist, Dai Qing. Now, as the Three Gorges dam is beset by monumental operational problems, Huang Wanli's prescient analysis helps explain why it was a mistake to build the biggest dam in the world. Read his 1993 interview with Dai Qing.
Chinese dams accused of flooding the region
By Other News Sources on November 14, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )
(November 14, 2008) Many of the 300 representatives at a recent forum in Bangkok have blamed Chinese authorities for releasing water from three hydropower dams on the Mekong River in August, which devastated hundreds of communities downstream.
Major flooding risk could span decades after Chinese earthquake
By Other News Sources on September 8, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )
(September 7, 2008) Up to 20 million people, thousands of whom are already displaced from their homes following the devastating Chinese earthquake, are at increased risk from flooding and major power shortages in the massive Sichuan Basin over the next few decades and possibly centuries.
Three Gorges Dam withstands largest flood peak
By Other News Sources on August 1, 2007 • ( Leave a comment )
(August 1, 2007) The Yangtze River's highest flood peak this season has passed through the Three Gorges Dam as of Sunday. Seventeen sluice gates have been opened to keep water level below the designed 144 meters and to ease the flood pressure on the mid-lower reaches.
Flood closes down Yangtze Three Gorges ship lock
By Other News Sources on July 30, 2007 • ( Leave a comment )
(July 30, 2007) The Yangtze River Three Gorges Navigational Bureau halted two-way traffic at the Three Gorges ship lock earlier this month as water influx into the dam measured an alarming 51,000 cubic meters per second, a result of continuous rainfall in the upper reaches. The lock, 6.4 km long and costing RMB ¥6.2 billion (USD $810 million), was built into the mountainous terrain on the northern bank of the Yangtze and has been the only navigable route past the dam since 2003.
Three Gorges reservoir lowers water level to brace for floods stream
By Other News Sources on July 8, 2007 • ( Leave a comment )
(July 8, 2007) The water level in the Three Gorges reservoir has been lowered to around 144 meters from 144.89 meters in order to brace for floods upstream.
Flood control along Yangtze cannot solely rely on Three Gorges Project, warns expert
By Other News Sources on June 15, 2007 • ( Leave a comment )
(June 15, 2007) The Three Gorges Project is not yet ready to provide flood protection for every community downstream of the giant dam, says a Chinese expert who warned that major flooding could occur this summer.
Vice premier calls to strengthen flood-control
(May 27, 2007) Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu has called for strengthened efforts in flood control and disaster relief in a season of heavy rains and floods in the Yangtze River, China's longest.
Heaviest floods since 1998 could hit Yangtze valley
(May 24, 2007) The most "severe floods" since 1998 might hit the Yangtze River this summer, a senior flood-control official warned yesterday.
Yangtze drought leaves 1 mln people short of water
By Other News Sources on February 27, 2007 • ( Leave a comment )
(February 27, 2007) Severe drought has had a debilitating effect on the Yangtze River, China's longest waterway, over the last two weeks, leaving 1.5 million people in Chongqing Municipality with water shortages, local water authorities said on Monday.
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