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	Three Gorges Dam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Three Gorges Dam (Simplified Chinese: 三峡大坝; Traditional Chinese: 三峽大壩; Pinyin: Sānxiá Dàbà) spans the Yangtze River at Sandouping, Yichang, Hubei province, China.
		Officials from the Three Gorges Resettlement Bureau were caught embezzling funds from resettlement programs in January 2000.
		The Three Gorges dam lies around 1,500km (932 miles) from Taiwan, while most of Taiwan's military aircraft have a combat radius of between 900 and 1,200km.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam (2791 words)

	Three Gorges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although it is primarily famous for its scenery, the Three Gorges region is historically, and culturally an important region in China.
		The Three Gorges region is located along the Yangtze River between the cities of Fengjie (奉节) and Yichang in Chongqing municipality and Hubei province.
		Proponents of the dam point out that because the mountains reach several thousand feet above the river, the gorges are still likely to offer spectacular views of the surrounding cliffs, and it should be noted that most riverboat companies that operate in the Three Gorges intend to continue to offer tours of the region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Three_Gorges (387 words)

	Three Gorges Dam: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The three gorges () region is a scenic area along the yangtze river in china with a total length of approximately 200 km....
		The hvdc three gorges-changzhou is a 890 kilometre-long bipolar hvdc powerline for the transmission of electric power from the three gorges power plant...
		The kariba dam is a hydroelectric dam in the kariba gorge of the zambezi river basin in southern africa (28.74778 e and 16.51222 s)....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/three_gorges_dam.htm (4502 words)

	Three Gorges Dam
		("Three Gorges Dam under…" 1) The dates for each phase are as follows; the first phase was completed from 1993 to 1997, the second phase is to last from 1998 to 2003, and the final and third phase is scheduled for 2004 to 2009.
		To reduce the sedimentation in the Three Gorges Reservoir, it is proposed to store clear (less silted) water after flood seasons and sluice muddy (silt-laden) water during flood seasons by means of lowering the water level with large-capacity outlets.
		The Three Gorges area is home to forty and thirty-six respectively unique fish and plant types that could all easily perish with the dam’s impact on their environment.
	www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /History/China/02/edwards/edwards.htm (1429 words)

	CNN In-Depth Specials - Visions of China - Asian Superpower: China's Three Gorges Dam
		The Three Gorges project is seen as an important future source of energy for China's growing electrical consumption.
		Dai calls Three Gorges "the most environmentally and socially destructive project in the world." She also calls for a halt to construction and supports the idea of a series of smaller, less disruptive construction projects on tributaries of the Yangzi.
		Byrne is skeptical whether the huge amount of electricity expected to be generated by the Three Gorges project -- meant to produce power for Chongqing and places as far away as Shanghai -- can be efficiently and economically absorbed by China's electrical system.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1999/china.50/asian.superpower/three.gorges (1638 words)

	ipedia.com: Three Gorges Dam Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Three Gorges Dam spans the Yangtze at Sandouping, Yichang, Hubei province, China.
		The Three Gorges Dam (三峡大坝, Sānxiá Dàbà) spans the Yangtze at Sandouping, Yichang, Hubei province, China.
		Unless they are forced to buy the Three Gorges power, or unless the government subsidizes the power and indirectly passes the cost onto the taxpayers, it will be impossible to recoup the investment in the project, which will then go bankrupt, the critics add.
	www.ipedia.com /three_gorges_dam.html (2775 words)

	Three Gorges Dam
		The Three Gorges Dam will be the largest hydropower station and dam in the world, with a 1.2 mile stretch of concrete and a 370 mile-long reservoir and 525 feet deep.
		The Three Gorges area begins at Baidicheng in Fengjie County, Sichuan Province, and ends at Nanjinguan in Yichang County, Hubei province, a distance of 193 kilometers.
		The China Yangtze Three Gorges Project Development Corporation, which is responsible for overseeing the entire project, announced that some stages of construction would be opened to bids from international companies.
	www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/THREEDAM.HTM (3129 words)

	Three Gorges -- Page 1
		The Three Gorges occupy an area along the Changjiang (长江,Long River -- otherwise known as the Yangzi River) from Yichang to the ancient city of Baidicheng (白帝城;).
		Following upon a dream of Sun Yat-Sen, the founder of modern China, the Chinese government decided to build the enormous Three Gorges Dam (三峡水库) with the goal of developing this impoverished area of China.
		I toured the Three Gorges in February, 1997 and this is testament to a place that will soon be gone forever.
	www.trachtenberg.org /3gorges.htm (242 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Sichuan-Chongqing flooding unrelated to Three Gorges water storage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is held that the huge amount of water storage in the Three Gorges reservoir has caused continual downpour in the Sichuan-Chongqing region.
		After almost 50 years of climate monitoring data analysis and weather value pattern analog-result analysis of the Three Gorges reservoir region, meteorologists believe that the current climatic variation is a natural change and the climatic changes in the Three Gorges region is identical with that of the entire southwest region.
		The Three Gorges' stored water only exerts a minor impact on the climate of local areas and the range of the impact is kept within 20 km.
	english.people.com.cn /200410/14/eng20041014_160200.html (900 words)

	Three Gorges
		One was the stretch of the river, indicated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's John L. Savage, from the entrance of the Xiling Gorge at Nanjingyuan Pass to Shipai.
		The Three Gorges Hydropower Station is comprised of two power plants, situated on each side of the central spillway, with a total of 26 generating units.
		The Three Gorges Dam project is the centerpiece of a vast plan designed to create a balance between areas of water abundance and water deficit, greatly improving the environment for hundreds of millions of people.
	www.21stcenturysciencetech.com /articles/Three_Gorges.html (12790 words)

	The world famous Three Gorges On The Yangzi River Cruise
		The Three Gorges are the Qutang Gorge (8km long), the Wuxia Gorge (45km long) and the Xilong (66km long) Gorge.
		The first of the gorges is an impressive sight, its angry waters described by the Song poet Su Dongpo as "like a thousand seas poured into one cup".
		Since The Three Gorges are much taller than the total planned water level increase of 80 meters, they will never be submerged by the reservoir.
	www.imperialtours.net /3gorges.htm (1071 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Lesser Three Gorges, together with its competitor port Shennong Stream, are the 2 most exciting and famous stops in the Yangtze Three Gorges.
		These three gorges, with an area of 160 hectares of forest, lie on the lower reaches of Daning, extending from the entrance of the Dragon-Gate Gorge in the South to Tujiaba in the North for 50 km.
		In the gorge, there are the remains of the longest ancient plank walkway in China and a number of scenic sights, such as the Dragon-Gate Spring, Gate Guarded by Lion, Nine Dragons Pillar, etc. Shooting the Rapids of Silver Nest, the boats fly like arrows.
	www.yangtzecruises.com /gallery/scenic_spots/lesser.html (900 words)

	Three Gorges Infinite Reasons
		The scenic canyons of the Three Gorges that have inspired poets and painters for centuries would be destroyed since there will be an increase in water level.
		Another factor of dam safety is the Three Gorges Dam being the potential prime target during a war.
		By observing the vast amount of environmental factors on building the Three Gorges Dams, we as a society must be able to grasp the concept of what types of risks we are putting on the natural capital.
	darwin.bio.uci.edu /~sustain/state/kmin.html (5426 words)

	Three Gorges Case Study
		The Three Gorges Dam, which is currently being constructed on the Yangtze River will be the world’s largest hydroelectric power generator and will in fact be large enough to be seen from outer space.
		While the fish population in the Yangtze River is currently quite abundant, the Three Gorges Dam will significantly reduce the flow velocity and aggregate siltation in the reservoir, drastically changing the natural habitat and biological activity, to which some species may be unable to adapt.
		Should this happen to the Three Gorges dam it would certainly be one of the biggest disasters ever to occur in world history.
	www.arch.mcgill.ca /prof/sijpkes/arch374/winter2001/dbiggs/three.html (748 words)

	Resettlement Problems of the Three Gorges Dam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There are three elements to this: First, the project is said to be fully supported by the people in the affected area who supposedly view it as an all–out campaign to alleviate poverty, an epic effort against often–lethal floods and a major contribution to China’s overall development.
		Unemployment rates in the counties and cities along the Three Gorges area, especially the Sichuan section of the reservoir area, are likely to increase in the next few years.
		In the case of the Three Gorges Dam project, the winners are, in addition to the handful of model households, urban residents who work for government agencies.
	www.irn.org /programs/threeg/resettle.html (4738 words)

	Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World--Technology lesson plan (grades 6-8)--DiscoverySchool.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As a result of the Three Gorges Dam project in China, 2 million people are actually going to go through this difficult experience - whether they want to or not.
		The engineering triumph of the Three Gorges Dam is touted as a sign of “progress,” though the project has many negative side effects that may not seem like progress to many Chinese citizens, like the forced relocation of 2 million people and the loss of 3,000-year-old antiquities.
		One of the major drawbacks to the Chinese government’s plan for Three Gorges Dam is that it will result in the loss of countless Chinese antiquities, among them irreplaceable works of art and architecture.
	school.discovery.com /lessonplans/programs/threegorges (1953 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Hidden danger behind Three Gorges dam
		As the huge reservoir behind China's controversial Three Gorges dam begins to fill up this weekend, an urgent rescue operation is being launched further upstream to save the dam from being choked by silt.
		However, official statements admit that the primary motive is to solve the silt problem facing the Three Gorges dam.
		Unlike the Three Gorges region, the population is sparse along the Jinsha so the project will attract less attention.
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,966654,00.html (1064 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Three Gorges: China Floods the Yangtze
		When completed in 2009, Three Gorges will generate 18,200 megawatts of power, 50 percent more than South America's Itaipu Dam, which currently is the largest dam in the world.
		The Three Gorges Dam project will form a reservoir 412 miles long and inundate an area seven times the size of the District of Columbia.
		Though construction started less than three years ago, the Three Gorges Dam was proposed in 1919 by Nationalist leader Sun Yat-sen. In 1944, J.L. Savage, chief design engineer of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, surveyed this area and drew up a dam proposal.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/yangtze/yangtze.htm (1836 words)

	Three Gorges Dam Study @ HotAndCold.com (Hot and Cold) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Construction is likely to be finished by May 20, 2006, nine months ahead of schedule, according to state media reports.
		PLA General Liu Yuan was quoted [7] in the China Youth Daily saying that the PRC would be "seriously on guard against threats from Taiwan independence terrorists".
		Also, the weight of the dam and reservoir can theoretically cause induced seismicity, as happened with the Katse Dam in Lesotho.
	www.hotandcold.com /encyclopedia/Three_Gorges_Dam (1909 words)

	Three Gorges Project to Generate Power in August 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Three Gorges reservoir is scheduled to retain water from April next year, with the water level to go up to 135 meters by June and finally reaching 175 meters in coming years.
		Located in Yichang, central China's Hubei Province, the Three Gorges Project is to have 26 units installed, each with a 700,000-kw capacity, by 2009.
		A group of 1,859 residents from the Three Gorges region became the latest and last batch of immigrants to arrive in Shanghai before the dam area is flooded next year.
	english.peopledaily.com.cn /200209/01/eng20020901_102436.shtml (966 words)

	Who's Behind China's Three Gorges Dam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Since 1994, EDC has lent the Chinese government $189 million to build the Three Gorges dam and related infrastructure, even though technical problems, social unrest from the people to be resettled, corruption, shortage of funds (most international financiers consider the dam too risky), and competition from cleaner, cheaper power producers threaten to sink the dam.
		CIDA withdrew from the Three Gorges project in 1992, privately admitting that the project was too controversial.
		Three Gorges proponents left the cost of controlling pollution in the dam reservoir out of the official project budget.
	www.probeinternational.org /probeint/ThreeGorges/who.html (4791 words)

	Three Gorges: Wu Gorge
		Wu Gorge is the most beautiful section of the Yangtze River, flanked by high peaks that are often capped by fog or clouds.
		The steep slopes of the gorge are green with trees and bushes.
		Wu Gorge is 45 kilometers (28 miles) long, extending from the mouth of the Daning River in the west to the north-bank town of Guangukou, in Badong County, in the east.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /river/yangtze_attraction/wu_gorge.htm (833 words)

	Asia Times: Investors warned off Three Gorges bonds
		WASHINGTON - Continuing with their effort to block financing of China's Three Gorges Dam, environmentalists are warning investors that bonds to be sold soon will indirectly finance the mammoth hydropower project that critics say will be a social and environmental disaster.
		She says the Three Gorges Development Corporation, which is constructing the dam, has a history of "avoiding accountability and transparency".
		The state-run corporation "disguised Three Gorges fundraising as general obligation bonds for the China Development Bank and the People's Republic of China", she says.
	www.atimes.com /china/CF02Ad04.html (922 words)

	The Three Gorges Dam in China: Forced Resettlement, Suppression of Dissent and Labor Rights Concerns
		Publicly, the authorities have assured China’s citizens and the rest of the world that the Three Gorges dam will be environmentally safe and economically viable, and that it will even contribute toward social stability and prosperity among the enormous number of people who are to be uprooted.
		One crucial aspect of the Three Gorges dam project which until now has received little public attention is that of the project’s potential for causing major human rights violations in the proposed reservoir region.
		Governments considering providing equipment, financing, commercial licensing, insurance or other goods and services for the Three Gorges project, either directly to the Chinese government or to corporations registered in their countries, should insist on independent studies of the likely human rights impact of the project before any agreements are concluded.
	www.hrw.org /summaries/s.china952.html (1710 words)

	After the Flood
		Both the famed Temple of Zhang Fei in the Qutang Gorge, where the brave but bad-tempered general's head is buried, and the Qu Yuan Shrine in the Wu Gorge, where people pay their highest respects to the earliest poet-in-exile in Chinese history, will be visited only by fish after the waters rise.
		As I sail through the Three Gorges, my eyes are drawn not to the wide, wild, brown water of the river but to the temples, pagodas, markets and the stone niches where trackers once pulled boats against the current of the Qutang Gorge.
		Here are the 12 beautiful mountain peaks in the Wu Gorge and the countless sharp, deep gorges with their strange names (one is The Gorge of the Ox's Liver and the Horse's Lung).
	www.solidsoftware.com.au /Yangtze/flood.html (2342 words)

	:: Xinhuanet - English :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		China's Three Gorges Project is the largest water conservation project in the world.
		Taking the total amount of concrete work as one example, the Three Gorges Project totals 26.43 million cubic meters, 2.5 times the figure for the Gezhouba Barrage project and twice that of the Itaipu project in Brazil, which is currently the largest water conservation projects in the world.
		The Three Gorges Project is designed with a concrete gravity dam with a crest elevation of 185 meters and maximum height of 175 meters.
	news.xinhuanet.com /english/2003-09/01/content_1061736.htm (257 words)

	Little Three Gorges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Yangtze Three Gorge on the Changjiang (yangtze) River are 204 kilometers long.
		Rising from thw swiftflowing, and perilous section of the river, the three gorges are famous for the steep cliffs on both sides.
		Qutang Gorge, the entrance of the Three Gorges
	www.tuat.ac.jp /~sabo/sanxia/sxbeau.htm (124 words)

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