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Three Gorges Dam takes the strain
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The Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest dam, takes the strain
for the first time today when the temporary dam that has protected it
throughout construction is demolished.
A network of electronic triggers was completed on Sunday for
today's demolition of the last cofferdam holding back the Yangtze
upstream from the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, Central China's Hubei
Province.
The electronic trigger network is attached to 2,540 detonators,
which will set off nearly 1,000 consecuti...
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; The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is set to start operations on schedule, a State Council expert group announced last week. On June 1, the dam gate will close and the reservoir will start to fill. Water levels are expected to reach 135 metres by June 15. As it fills, a 436-kilometre- long
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Diversion canal ready for damming
China Daily
; THREE GORGES DAM, Hubei Province: Construction workers have completed preparations for damming the diversion canal of the Three Gorges dam project and the work is scheduled to start this afternoon. By Monday, workers had nearly dammed both the upstream and downstream cofferdams, leaving an opening
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Dam to be completed on May 20
China Daily
; Construction of the giant Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is due to end in two weeks' time, marking the completion of the major part of the Three Gorges Hydropower Project. It will be completed nine months ahead of schedule on May 20, Xinhua quoted Cao Guangjing, deputy general manager of the
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China's great leap backward: uneconomic and outdated, the Three Gorges dam will stunt China's economic growth
International Journal
; THE TRAGEDY OF THE THREE GORGES DAM goes beyond the nearly two million people who will be resettled from their homes, villages, farms, temples, and work places to make way for it, beyond the 1,300 sites of cultural antiquities and the 100,000 hectares of precious farmland that will be submerged
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Schistosoma japonicum Infection: A Hidden Cost of China's Three Gorges Dam?
Georgia Journal of Ecological Anthropology
; Introduction In 1919, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen proposed improving shipping conditions and developing hydroelectric power generation in the "Three Gorges" section of the Yangtze River. During the 1930s, research on the project done by the Kuomintang government concluded that such improvements were indeed
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