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4KS Pros and Cons
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Pros: 1.The dam provides hydroelectricity for a lot of countries in china 2. The dam makes as much as 15 nuclear power plants. 3. The dam can store rain water or water from the river. 4. The dam controls folds and helps villagers shower, swim, fish and drink water. 5. The water makes electricity but the water was not destroyed so it is reusable. 6. It provides clean electricity. 7. The dam can't be easily broken. 8. It prevents floods downstream. 9.The dam makes the air pollution disappear

Cons: 1. Give cancer to neighboring villages, through the waste treatment plants. 2. Kill water animals. 3. Villagers had to move, and abandon their homes.( They force over 1 million farmers and villagers off their homeland) 4. Factories sometimes dump bad chemicals into the river 5. When the three gorges dam was built there was a hot pollution.( the river even smelled because of chemicals and bad pollution.) 6. Acid rain threatens 1/3 of china. 7. Dams are expensive to build, and due to drought may become useless, or produce much less power than originally planned. 8. Dams can break in a massive flash flood. 9. The Yangtze river may flood cities and not many cities may be left. 10.Along the Yangtze, the villagers had for about 215 floods 11.14 million people were left homeless 12.A lot of people don't want the three gorges dam to be built, but some people think on the positive side. 13. More than 6,000 people had to move. 14. Sewage were dumped into the Yangtze polluting the river and killing the Baji dolphins. 15. The dam can break and kill many people.

Extra Information: 1. The dam took 15 years to make. 2. The dam provides hydroelectricity, controls floods and navigation. 3. People who carried junks from the river are called trackers 4. The dam was first built in 1994 5. The Yangtze is the fourth largest cidement carrier in the world. 6. In 1975 one of China's dam made of steel was believed to be unbreakable broke. 7. The Chinese government won't let the engineers stop the project. 8. The tree gorges dam took 15 years to make. 9. The three gorges dam costs $30 billion dollars

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