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Three gorges dam

Date Submitted: 09/09/2006 23:21:31
Category: / Social Sciences / Current Issues
Length: 1 pages (352 words)
I do not think The Three Gorges Dam project should be completed for many reasons. One of the reasons is that China will have to relocate three hundred and eighty million people. This is because the proposed 185 meter high and two thousand meter wide dam across the Yangtze river (the 3rd largest river in the world) will cerate a four hundred-mile long man made lake. This puts 150,000 acres under water. Somewhere in these 150,000 acres there …
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…people at risk. Another reason I do not think the dam should be built is that right now tons of sewage is being dumped into the swift flowing river. If the river is blocked the sewage will have a chance to settle and build up on the bottom of the huge man made sea. In conclusion, I do not think The Three Gorges Dam should be built, and a hope many others agree with me.
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