Three Gorges Dam - Wikipedia
The Three Gorges Dam (simplified Chinese: 三峡大坝; traditional Chinese: 三峽大壩; pinyin: Sānxiá Dàbà) is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near Sandouping in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges.
Three Gorges Dam opens floodgates - Chinadaily.com.cn
2024年7月12日 · The Three Gorges Dam has opened its flood discharge gates for the first time this year, with the aim of alleviating flood control concerns upstream of the world's largest hydropower project as the rain shifts westward along the Yangtze River.
Three Gorges Dam deformed but safe, say operators
2020年7月21日 · In a rare revelation, Beijing has admitted that its 2.4-kilometer Three Gorges Dam spanning the Yangtze River in Hubei province “deformed slightly” after record flooding. The official Xinhua News Agency quoted the operator of the world’s largest hydroelectric gravity dam as saying that some nonstructural, peripheral parts of the dam had ...
Three Gorges Dam on alert as heavy rain and floods kill 6 in China
2024年7月12日 · The Three Gorges Dam, China’s largest, is on high alert as floods triggered by torrential rains wreak havoc in the southwestern part of the country.
China’s Three Gorges Dam on flood alert as rain batters megacity ...
2024年7月12日 · Devastating rains have struck Chongqing municipality in southwest China with the Three Gorges Dam on high alert for a new round of flooding. Six people deaths had been recorded as a result of...
Water levels at China’s Three Gorges near maximum after flooding …
2020年7月22日 · China’s giant hydroelectric dams have stored more than 100 billion cubic meters of floodwater this year, and shielded 18.5 million residents from evacuation, according to government figures. The...
Devastating China flooding puts controversial Three Gorges Dam …
2020年7月15日 · The Three Gorges dam is discharging flood. Yichang City, Hubei Province, China, July 2. The dam has come under new scrutiny after devastating flooding over the past few weeks.
China's Three Gorges Dam: An Environmental Catastrophe?
2008年3月25日 · The reservoir created by Three Gorges dam threatens to flood the habitats of those species along with over 400 others, says Jianguo Liu, an ecologist at Michigan State University and guest ...
Three Gorges Dam in central China's Hubei discharges floods
2024年7月16日 · Water gushes out from the Three Gorges Dam through nine of its flood discharge gates to spare more capacity for incoming floods from upper reaches of the Yangtze River, in central China's...
Three Gorges Dam defends first large flood of this year
2021年7月14日 · The Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydropower project, has successfully contained the first large flood with a capacity of 40,000 cubic meters per second thanks to the accurate...