The Three Gorges Dam project on China's Yangtze River will be the largest dam in the world once completed. It aims to provide electricity, flood control, and navigation improvements. Over 1.2 million people will need to be resettled as the dam forms a huge reservoir flooding over 600 square kilometers of land. Both benefits like power generation and costs like environmental impacts and cultural losses are substantial.
4. LOCATION This dam is being build in the China on the YANGZI river. This river is the third largest river in the world. BASIC IDEA First of all the idea of dam on the YANGZI river was given by SUN YAT SEN the father of the modern CHINA In 1919.
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7. This dam was the dream of many Chinese generations. In 1950 after devastating floods in YANGZI river MAO TSETUNG ordered feasibility studies on damming the river. It will be completed in 17 years. Its construction was started in 1993. It will be completed in 2009
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10. EFFECT ON ENVIRONMENT This project is environment friendly. CHINA burns 50 million tons of coal each year for energy effecting environment due to sulphur and carbon dioxide. This project will reduce the consumption of coal. Although due to this project some species will be disturbed but overall effect of the project on the environment is friendly. Due to large consumption of coal carbon dioxide and sulphur causes acid rains.
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13. The impact to international trade is indirect. Large amount of machinery is required for dam that is imported. Government has imported 680MW turbo generators and 50 KV high voltage transmission lines. These equipments are expensive and amount of International trade is significant. INTERNATIONAL IMPACT
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20. This dam will play the role of back bone in China’s economy in future. Chinese Government fully supports this project. China’s power output must rise 8% annually to keep pace with 6% annual Increase in gross national product. It Supply mainly power to central China. WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT?
