Three Gorges' Rising Water Levels Cost Millions

ZHANG:
Rising water levels at Chinas Three Gorges Dam have caused millions of dollars in damage over the last few months. Landslides damaging houses, property and infrastructure have cost more than 360 million yuan, or $53 million U.S. dollars.

The one-and-a-half-mile-long dam is the world's largest. It was designed to control the Yangtze River and provide and clean hydroelectric energy, but the project has been fraught with problems.

Over the last four years, some 1.4 million people have been forced from their homes as their towns fell below the rising water line along the shores of the dams 400-mile-long reservoir.

In April, a mudslide hit a village in the Gaoyang area, covering a school playground. And a landslide last year caused by the rising water levels killed 35 people.

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[jillh10]

I wonder what effect, if any, huge vast areas of water would have on earths axis wobble? If this dam bust, omg, it doesnt need thinking about...this is a disaster waiting to happen, people need to become aware of 911 and london bombings and recently again in Texas BE AWARE OF DRILLS to do with that dam....