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4SR Pros and Cons
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Pros: 1. The Three Gorges Dam will make more electricity and provide to us. 2. The Three Gorges Dam prevents floods and protect crops and lives. 3. The Yangtze River helps farmers grow more crops through irrigation. 4. We were moved to new modern houses with running water, flushing toilets better sanitation. 5 Better living amenities like TV, mobile phone, cooking fire. 6. Provide means to transport from villages to villages. 7.Provide a livelihood for us. 8. The Yangtze River is a great way to travel down the river to sell crops. 9. dam can store rain water or water from the river. 10.The dam is always hard to break 11. 12. 13.

Cons: 1.While flooding, it destroyed our homes and killed my family, when flooding it also nearly killed me! 2. If you have ancestors that died, the coffins would be flooded in about 5-10 years because the water level is rising. 3. It destroyed treasures such as temples and my ancestor's high-hanging coffin. 4. To see a temple that got flooded[| click here.] 5. We need to move to another house when our family lived in this house for generations. 6. The Three Gorges Dam takes 20 years to build, so if floods come it would break the Three Gorges Dam. 7. Because of the water rising, 1.3 million people were forced to move to other places. 8. We moved from our historical falling shed. 9. It was dusty when the engineers were building the Three gorges Dam. 10. A close comparison in terms of size would be the Grand Coulee Dam in the U.S. which is slightly larger. 11. All the farmers`s farms are going to be destroyed. 12. We moved away from our farms with crops. 13. When flooding it killed 5 million people and 13 villages. 14.If the three Gorges Dam falls, it would create a huge tidal wave that would kill everyone. 15. While building the dam, workers threw trash in the river and it polluted the water so fresh water was kind of hard to find. 16.The three gorges dam is flooding the plants and farms. 17. The government said that they would get richer but they got poorer. 18. While we tug boats we die. 19. If we say something bad or write something bad we would be put in prison, and 10 were executed. 20. When a bridge in the Yangtze River broke, it killed 40 people. 21. 70 species of fish are dead or extinct because of the pollution, and fish would be hard to catch for food. 22. When building the Dam they had to use dynamites and it pollutes the air and it is hard to breathe. 23. The police took away all the money that the government promised them. 24. 25.

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