This book is an updated and expanded edition of Damming
The Three Gorges: What Dam Builders Don’t Want You To Know, a critique
of a Canadian government-World Bank feasibility study of China’s Three
Gorges Dam. Originally published in September 1990, this book exposed
the flawed analyses and compromised calculations evident in the
official justification of a large dam project. Since the first edition
was published, others have discovered the same defects in other
justifications of other large dam projects.

About the Editors

Gráinne Ryder
worked as an engineer in Thailand on village water supply projects for
three years before joining Probe International in 1987 as a water
resources researcher. She headed an international effort to stop the
Three Gorges Project until 1990 when she returned to Thailand to
coordinate a campaign against a series of dams on the Mekong River.

We wish to give special thanks to Patricia Adams for her rigorous
editorial assistance, and her unflagging enthusiasm for the book.

Special
thanks also to Lawrence Solomon, for his patience and guidance
throughout preparation of the book, for his expert help with writing
and editing, and for his humour when driving a point home.

Beijing: Chinese scientists will continue to search for a rare freshwater dolphin unique to the Yangtze River, although it is possibly extinct after a 38-day search failed to find any, Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.

Beijing: China’s Three Gorges Dam, the largest hydropower project in the world, has opened its floodgates to ease water shortages not seen along the Yangtze River since the Qing Dynasty, state media said on Thursday.

The Three Gorges Dam in central China’s Hubei Province Thursday has opened its floodgates to ease the severe water shortages along the Yangtze River.

Xinhua January 16, 2007 One third of all fish species in China’s second largest river are believed to be extinct due to human encroachment and scant rainfall, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) […]

Human encroachment, pollution, overfishing and dam-building have killed one third of fish species in the Yellow River, China’s second-longest waterway. Its increasingly desperate plight is also threatening economic growth.

Three Gorges Project Corporation set up goals of ensuring quality and safety in the year of 2007, and to secure flood safety and put the first group of units on the right bank into production and generate electricity in the first quarter in 2007.