Flooding Tests Three Gorges Dam, Pollutes Songhua River in China
Chemical pollution is the latest calamity as heavy rains continue to blanket the country with floods.
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China May Relocate 300,000 from Three Gorges Region
Water pollution and river bank instability pose more serious problems than expected on the reservoir banks.
Three Gorges Dam Causes Havoc as Water Levels Rise
BEIJING — The hydroelectric feat that displaced over a million people is pushing its maximum water level and should reach it next year. The reservoir’s slopes, however, are already beginning to erode — causing numerous landslides. Chinese authorities express concern about the damage, but say that the cost of repairs from such events does not […]
Chinese Artists Portray Three Gorges Emigration
China’s Three Gorges hydroelectric dam project on the Yangtze River has displaced some four million people. Now four of the country’s artists have come together to visually communicate the dam’s profound impact on China’s populous, as well as its landscape. Their work is on exhibit at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art from […]
Three Gorges exodus complete
BEIJING – After four years of migration, over 4 million people have been evacuated from their homes to make way for the waters of China’s gargantuan hydroelectric project. At 2,309-meters in length, the dam should provide affordable energy to a rapidly developing nation. Critics, however, point to the negative impacts of human displacement, geologic alteration […]
Up the Yangtze depicts social complexity of China’s Three Gorges Dam
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan – In time for the Beijing Olympics, Up the Yangtze documents a journey into the heart of the Chinese Dream. With her family on the verge of becoming environmental refugees, Yu Shui departs to work for the opportunistic tourism company, Farewell Cruises, on the quickly changing Yangtze River. A strikingly personal vignette […]
Three Gorges cleanup effort fails to improve water quality.
Despite an ambitious, multibillion-dollar effort to clean up the Three Gorges reservoir, water quality in the lake has not improved, according to a report by China’s top environmental regulator agency. Read more here.
What’s Up With Water – May 3, 2021
Listen to the May 3, 2021 edition of What’s Up With Water.
The Stream, April 30, 2021: Glacial Lake In Tibet Threatens Chinese Hydropower Development
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN An unstable glacial lake created by a landslide could pose a threat to a massive Chinese hydropower dam proposed to be built downstream. The island of St. Vincent was hit with severe flooding after a volcanic eruption devastated the Caribbean country last week. Four were killed and dozens were injured during a […]
The Year in Water, 2020
Societies confront the fallout from rapid environmental change.
The Stream, August 26, 2020: Low Nutrient Levels in Great Lakes Are Threatening Wildlife
The Global Rundown A new report shows nutrients in most of the Great Lakes are declining. Water levels in China’s Three Gorges Dam are dropping after a record-setting high over the weekend. A hurricane is set to make landfall in the U.S. Gulf Coast this week. Three-fourths of residents in an Indian village are sick […]
What’s Up With Water – August 24, 2020
This is the August 24, 2020, edition of What’s Up With Water, your “need-to-know news” of the world’s water.
