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It seems to connect the time, doesn’t it? A once-in-a-generation pandemic, a once-in-a-generation flood. Parts of China really live up to their eyes in the water, in what the Chinese government calls a flood once every 100 years. The Three Gorges Dam, built to achieve a logical level of those things, is now in the spotlight.
The Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydroelectric power plant in the world, with an installed capacity of 22,500 megawatts of electricity generation. The fact is that the power plant is downstream of the Yangtze River from a handful of other dams that exist at an altitude higher than the Three Gorges. And the floods and unrest of those dams upriver, the Three Gorges are undone under the presidency of giant water flows.
Cities in the country’s central region along the Yangtze River, China’s longest river, were flooded last week due to heavy rains from this monsoon season. It may be the worst flood since 1998, and not a hundred years ago, according to Beijing.
In total, more than 400 tributary rivers of the Yangtze River overflowed, with the most virtuous friend, two hundred dead and underwater houses.
The average rainfall is approximately 12% higher than the last monsoon season. The economic damage caused by the floods is expected to succeed at 86.2 billion yuan ($12 billion), according to a couple of government stipes made Friday.
On Sunday, the AP reported in Beijing that the government had destroyed an entire dam to release emerging water and let it flow.
State-run CCTV reported that the dam on the Chuhe River in Anhui province was destroyed by explosives early Sunday morning, and then the water point is expected to drop 70 centimeters, or just over two feet.
Last week, the Three Gorges Dam opened 3 gates when the water point rose more than 50 feet above the flood zone. Another flood ridge is expected to hit the dam on Tuesday.
The Chinese army tested the resistance of the embankments and supported them with sand and rocks.
Over the weekend, firefighters and others ended a 620-foot break at Lake Poyang, China’s largest freshwater lake, which also caused widespread flooding in five villages, causing the playground to sink in Jiangxi Province.
As of late Sunday, the Huaihe River was overflowing as heavy rain is forecast in the region for the next three days, according to China’s Ministry of Emergency Management. From today to Wednesday, more strong rains will raise flood risks for rivers connecting to Three Gorges, though it seems that the heaviest or rains will end by mid-week, saving the world’s largest dam from further stress.
Flooding is expected to pose a threat to the numbers of Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces this week, while heavy mountain rains are likely maximum for quantities in Sichuan and Guizhou provinces, although this is never expected to have an influence on The Three Gorges Force.
The last thing China wants is for this dam to sink. It would be a bad time to change Beijing.
I spent 20 years as a journalist for top productive in the industry, adding as a member of the staff founded in Brazil for WSJ. Since 2011, I have focused on business and making an investment in the great