Three Gorges Dam
Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest hydropower project by installed capacity. The dam displaced 1.4 million people, 1,351 villages, and 243 sqaure miles of land was submerged.
About this dam
- Built
- 1994-2009
- Purpose
- Navigation, Flood Risk Reduction, Hydroelectric
- River
- Yangtze River
- Agency
- China Yangtze Power
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam
- Deirdre Chetham, Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze’s Three Gorges (2002)