(January 19, 2000) The 185m-high dam of China’s Three Gorges project has been completed after 13 years of construction. This milestone, in time for China’s summer flood season. was marked with a televised ceremony attended by workers and officials. The entire project, situated on the vast Yangtze river, is not scheduled to come online for a further three years. … Some believe the project is threatening the drinking water of major cities like Chongqing, and are not happy about the effect damming the Yangtze will have on the local ecosystem, including the sewage resulting from silt build-up. The government has had to resettle approximately 1.9M people in more than 1000 towns and villages, and many villagers were also forced to give up their farmland, and therefore their livelihood. …

International Water Power and Dam Construction, January 19, 2000

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