China's Three Gorges Dam : an environmental disaster in the making?

China's Three Gorges Dam, due to be completed in November and already the biggest in the world, is getting bigger every day on all fronts.

While officially the Chinese government said it has spent 20 billion euro on building the 185-metre dam and a reservoir stretching more than 600 kilometres, local critics and foreign observers said the real figure could be more than twice that amount, and that's just in the construction phase.

A new figure emerged in local media, indicating that nearly 10 billion euro would have to be spent over the next 10 years to manage the myriad social and environmental problems that have risen alongside the dam's concrete wall.

Watch this longer report from Belgian VRT correspondent in China Tom Van de Weghe about the environmental problems caused by the Three Gorges Dam.

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• tom van de weghe
• disaster
• environment
• yangtze

[kingcamilo]

all your fuckin tvs ipods cellphones computers were manufactured in china, u ignorant american imbecils. quit makin stereo types like those because this was an engineerin revolutin. whores

[Durgarth1]

This reminds me of the great wall of China

[howching]

Hey just look at all the things made in china... judge for yourself

[cdlmn63]

the chiniese built this thing ok... it's sure not to last long