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4CM Pros and Cons
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Pros:

The citizens are getting moved to bigger houses that has running water and more resources. It provides jobs for many villagers Stopping natural floods It generates clean electricity Each year, the power churned out by its 26 turbines will be equivalent to that produced by 40 millions tons of coal or 18 nuclear power plants. The Three Gorges Dam is the world’s largest hydro-electric power station by total capacity, which will be 22,500 MW It would support about 3% of the total electricity consumption in China.

Cons:

More than 1.2 million citizens have to move to higher grounds, most people don't like that People lose treasures in floods. Villagers have to move Old cities destroyed, new cities built The Government officials give the most the money they have to the Three Gorges Dam, so villagers do not have better schools, hospitals,houses and more Chinese officials estimate that the reservoir will partially or completely inundate 2 cities, 11 counties, 140 towns, 326 townships, and 1351 villages. About 23800 hectares, more than 1.1 million people will have to be resettled. The government is sacrificing hundreds of things in order to finish this enormous and expensive project in China. It made a lot of pollution when it was being made because of the use of dynamites The weight of millions of tons of water behind a dam can increase the chances of an earthquake, so many villagers could die!!! Since ground breaking in 1994, well over a million residents have been forced to resettle, while everything from toxic drinking water to erosion and earthquakes has been attributed to the construction. When the water level is maximum at 175 metes (574 ft) over sea level (91 meters (299 ft) above river level), the reservoir created by the Three Gorges Dam is about 660 kilometers (410 mi) in length and 1.12 kilometers (0.70 mi) in width on average, and contains 39.3 cu km (9.43 cubic miles) of water. The fish will die, and then the farmers and villagers could die with hunger. Crops will get electrified and farmers grow weary with hunger same with the fish. The news said that is a discovery that there might be a very big landslide because of the three gorges dam. China's vast Three Gorges reservoir will see a increasing number of landslides and other geological hazards as the water reaches its maximum level this autumn, a magazine report warned on Monday. It's built on a fault line and that can cause a serious catastrophe earthquake.

Questions raised: What does the Chinese villagers think and say about the three gorges dam?