21st August: China’s Three Gorges Dam has been hit with the greatest flood it has seen so far. Ever since it has been made, it has never come across such a high volume of water.
It is the world’s largest Hydro-electric dam, yesterday it reached a level where 75m liters of water were inflowing per second. It was so much for the dam that 49.2m liters of water had to be discharged out of the dam every second.
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After 2 months of extreme flooding in central and southwest China, officials have confirmed that the larger HEP dam can withstand the floods.
A breach of the dam, along the Yangtze River, would be embarrassing for China, which took 12 years to build the megaproject, displacing millions and submerging swathes of land.
The dam which can handle up to 98.8 Liters of water a second is almost about to reach its capacity.
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Officials say that the reservoir of the dam which can hold up to 175 meters, will be coming across 165.5 meters on Saturday. The flooding is predicted to last for five days.
In Chongqing, roads, bridges, parks, and a main highway in the commercial district were flooded, affecting 260,000 people and damaging at least 20,000 businesses, according to officials.
The provinces of Hunan, Henan, and Hubei, where the Three Gorges dam is located, were also braced for heavy rain on Thursday.
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