Category Archives: Sediment

Dai Qing: On The Completion of the Three Gorges Project

Posted on April 7, 2011 by

(April 7, 2011) Dai Qing, Chinese investigative journalist and Probe International Fellow, delivered the following speech about the Three Gorges Dam project in November 2010 while on a speaking tour in British Columbia, Canada. In her address, she reports that the problems predicted by dam critics published in her books, “Yangtze! Yangtze!” and “The River Dragon Has Come!,” are now coming true. Continue reading →

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Tackling the growing problem of sedimentation

Posted on August 9, 2010 by

(August 9, 2010) Worldwide experts will convene in South Africa in September 2010. At the top of their agenda is the growing problem of river sedimentation. Professor Gerrit Basson explains why tackling this issue is of great importance to the dams industry. Continue reading →

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Water brief: Three Gorges Dam

Posted on January 1, 2009 by

(January 1, 2009) In The World’s Water 2008-2009, the Pacific Institute’s Dr. Gleick examines the usual anticipated benefits of the Three Gorges Dam: power, navigation and flood control and the growing list of problems — serious impacts on fisheries, coastal erosion due to vastly lower sediment flow in the Yangtze, landslides, earthquakes and social unrest due to the displacement of millions of people. Continue reading →

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Major flooding risk could span decades after Chinese earthquake

Posted on September 8, 2008 by

(September 7, 2008) Up to 20 million people, thousands of whom are already displaced from their homes following the devastating Chinese earthquake, are at increased risk from flooding and major power shortages in the massive Sichuan Basin over the next few decades and possibly centuries. Continue reading →

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Three Gorges Dam is hurting river, study finds

Posted on May 21, 2007 by

(May 21, 2007) China’s Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydropower project, is retaining huge amounts of sediment and nutrients and causing significant erosion in the downstream reaches of the Yangtze River, researchers have found. Continue reading →

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Plan curbs Three Gorges pollution

Posted on April 6, 2006 by

(April 6, 2006) Beijing is trying to halt the flow of sediment and industrial pollution into the massive reservoir that will be created with the construction of the dam on the Yangtze River. Continue reading →

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Three Gorges dam implicated in serious embankment breaches

Posted on March 31, 2006 by

(March 31, 2006) Officials in Hunan province, racing to repair ruptures in earthen embankments near Yueyang, point to the big dam 400 kilometres upriver as the main cause of the dangerous situation. Continue reading →

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Damn the fish: Lessons from Glen Canyon

Posted on February 7, 2003 by

(February 7, 2003) A huge dam near the Grand Canyon in the United States, which has killed off half the native fish species that once thrived downstream, holds lessons for the Three Gorges project. Continue reading →

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