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Essay on Three Gorges Dam | ||
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This is the first 1,000 characters of 415 words (1.66 pages) in the essay titled Three Gorges Dam What? A controversial dam construction site in central China, along the Yangtze River. The proposed size of the dam is roughly two kilometers across, and would rise about 185 meters into the air, causing a giant man-made lake. Cost? $24.5 billion United States dollars, or $191.1 billion Chinese dollars. Three Gorges dam in central Hubei province say the structure could possibly increase flooding. When? The dam is to be completed in 2009, was officially started in 1994, after the idea was 75 years in the making Where? Central Hubei province, along the Yangtze River Side Effects? More than a million people are being moved to make way for the project, provoke the sort of floods currently seen in the region, fertile agricultural lands will be destroyed, rare and endangered fish species will be threatened with extinction, and important archaeological sites will be forever lost under a man-made sea, Threatens 75 million jobs dependent on the Yangtze river (fishermen, farmers,) political tensions. Why? To create protection for flooding in the central Three Gorges valley. The Yangtze River has a history of flooding, due to the geographical features of the area. The dam would also provide 18,200 megawatts of power to the Yangtze River valley and surrounding areas. Yangtze! Yangtze! ??? Yangtze! Yangtze! was an independently published collection of interviews and essays critical of the three gorges dam project sent out in 1989. It spoken by the books editors at the press conference or... |
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Keywords: yangtze river valley, three gorges dam project, three gorges dam, central hubei province, gorges valley, controversial dam, dam construction, benefit project, endless repetition, geographical features, river fishermen, giant man, fertile agricultural lands, endangered fish