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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. Some amounts of China are actually at the height of its eyes in the water, in what the Chinese government calls a flood once every hundred 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 world’s largest hydroelectric power plant, with an installed capacity of 22,500 megawatts of electricity. 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 the monsoon season. This is the worst flood since 1998, not in a hundred years as some in Beijing have said.
In total, more than 400 tributary rivers of the Yangtze River overflowed, with the most virtuous friend, two hundred dead and underwater houses.
Average rainfall is around 12% higher than last monsoon season. The economic damage from flooding is expected to reach 86.2 billion yuan ($12 billion), according to some government estimates made on Friday.
On Sunday, the AP reported from Beijing that the government destroyed an entire dam to release floodwaters and let it flow.
State television station CCTV reported that the dam on the Chuhe River in Anhui province was reduced to explosive debris early Sunday morning, and then the water point is expected to fall at 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 Tuesday, AP’s article said, adding that the Chinese army tested the resistance of the embankments and supported them with sandbags and rocks.
Over the weekend, firefighters finished a 620-foot break at Lake Poyang, China’s largest freshwater lake, which was flooded in five villages and poured grains into Jiangxi Province underwater.
On Sunday night, the Huaihe River overflowed as heavy rains were forecast in the region over the next 3 days, China’s Minischeck is out of emergency management.
Today through Wednesday, the heaviest rains will increase the threat of flooding for the rivers connecting the Three Gorges, it seems that the heaviest rains will end in the middle of the week, saving the world’s largest dam from new stress.
Flooding is expected to pose a threat to the amounts of Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces this week, while heavy mountain rains are likely to hit amounts of Sichuan and Guizhou provinces, according to the AP, this is never expected to have an impact. about the strength of the Three Gorges.
The last thing China wants is for this dam to fail. 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