three+goerges+dam+lars



 The Three Gorges Dam is the largest dam in the world. Although it provides some areas with electricity, it is destroying the environment. The dam has flooded archaeological and cultural sites and displaced some 1.24 million people, and is causing dramatic ecological changes, including increasing the risk of landslides. The decision to build the dam has been deeply controversial in China. About 70 species of fish are estimated to be killed of due to the change in the environment and water temperature. The dam will raise the water level the third time to its designed maximum water level (175 m above sea level) by the end of 2008.the dam is causing large landslides that is destroying wild life. Because 40% of the cities that surround the river don’t have sewage drains all the sewage from the cities end up in the river. Before the three gorges dam was built the sewage in the river would just float out to sea, now that the dam is in the way the sewage is blocked and creates an area that is uninhabitable for life. If a tree gets falls in the river and gets stuck in the water release for the dam, the dam will get clogged and overflow. This disaster of a dam has caused 1,400,000 people to be removed from there homes and in to different areas. An estimated 4,000,000 people might also have to be relocated over the years. The land that has been left behind has some very important ancient structures have will be destroyed when the water reaches then. The dam is literally washing away history. Building this dam is a disaster to the environment and fish (I love fish) and it will also destroy the lives of many people. That is why I am agansed the construction on the three gorges dam.

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__Three Gorge Dam.__ 17 May 2002 [].

Barribeau, Jen, et al. __Three Gorges Dam__. 17 May 2002 .