Three Gorges Dam / In the Medias

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119802214926737977.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

The New York Times

Choking on Growth
This is the fourth in a series of articles and multimedia examining the human toll, global impact and political challenge of China's epic pollution crisis.

JIANMIN VILLAGE, China - Last year, Chinese officials celebrated the completion of the Three Gorges Dam by releasing a list of 10 world records. As in: The Three Gorges is the world's biggest dam, biggest power plant and biggest consumer of dirt, stone, concrete and steel. Ever. Even the project's official tally of 1.13 million displaced people made the list as record No. 10.

Today, the Communist Party is hoping the dam does not become China's biggest folly. In recent weeks, Chinese officials have admitted that the dam was spawning environmental problems like water pollution and landslides that could become severe. Equally startling, officials want to begin a new relocation program that would be bigger than the first.

Financial Times

Taming China's longest river has been the dream of emperors and dictators for centuries. The first water diversion works on the Yangtze were built during the Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago and the Three Gorges dam was first proposed by Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary father of modern China, nearly 100 years ago as a way to mitigate the river's frequent and devastating floods. The project was championed by Mao Zedong in the 1950s but decades of disastrous political blunders and fierce domestic opposition meant it would take another 50 years and the crushing of a nascent democracy movement before Mao's dream of building the world's largest hydropower station could be realised.

Sichuan Geologist Fan Xiao Travels to the Three Gorges reservoir area, and reports on aspects of the project that continue to trouble Chinese experts. Published in Chinese National Geographic and translated by Three Gorges Probe. 

Tidal wetlands on the Yangtze delta near Shanghai are in danger of disappearing because of sediment trapped in the Three Gorges Dam. 

The Three Gorges Dam is already threatening one of the world's biggest fisheries in the East China Sea. 

The Three Gorges Dam has been dogged by controversy ever since it was mooted but the deadliest risk has barely been acknowledged. Discusses potential human health and environmental impacts in the reservoir fluctuation zone.