The water is rising…
An operation to raise the level of water in the Three Gorges’ reservoir to 175 meters began early Tuesday.
The level increased to 146.3 meters at 11 a.m. Tuesday from the 145.87-meter mark when the operation began, said Yuan Jie, chief of the control center of the China Three Gorges Project Corporation.
via China begins raising Three Gorges reservoir level to 175m — china.org.cn.
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Three Gorges Dam tested as water rises | Environment | Reuters
Rising water levels in China’s giant Three Gorges Dam have triggered dozens of landslides in recent months, damaging houses, land and infrastructure worth millions of dollars, state media said on Thursday.br /br /In July, China finished evacuating residents from the last town to be submerged by the massive 660-km (400-mile) long reservoir on the Yangtze River, ending an exodus of some 1.4 million people that began four years ago.The 2,309-meter-long dam, the world’s largest, aims to tame the river and provide cheap, clean energy for the country’s rapid development.
But critics say rising water levels in the reservoir are eroding already fragile slopes and triggering landslides which could worsen as levels reach their maximum height next year.
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