Case Study- Three Gorges Dam

Question 1

How many visitors come to the dam each year?

Answer 1

Over 1 million

Question 2

Up to what weight can the bigger ships be due to controlling of flow?

Answer 2

3000 tonnes

Question 3

How much is the dam estimated to have cost?

Answer 3

£23 billion

Question 4

How many were killed in 1998’s pre dam floods?

Answer 4

3000

Question 5

How many were made homeless in 1998’s pre dam floods?

Answer 5

14 million

Question 6

It is the largest HEP plant in the world, how many tons of CO2 does it save?

Answer 6

100 million

Question 7

The dam produces the equivalent of how many nuclear power stations?

Answer 7

18

Question 8

What species has it contributed to the extinction of?

Answer 8

River dolphin

Question 9

How many farmers have lost their farmland due to the reservoir?

Answer 9

Over 500,000

Question 10

How many acres of land have been lost?

Answer 10

100,000

Question 11

What % of China’s grain harvest was provided by the land reservoired?

Answer 11

10%

Question 12

How many people have been moved to make way for the reservoir?

Answer 12

1.4 million

Question 13

How many villages have been flooded?

Answer 13

1000

Question 14

How many towns have been flooded?

Answer 14

140

Question 15

How many important archaelogical sites were destroyed?

Answer 15

1000

Question 16

How wide is it?

Answer 16

2.5km

Question 17

How long is the reservoir created?

Answer 17

660km

Question 18

How many turbines does it have?

Answer 18

32

Question 19

What river does it dam?

Answer 19

Yangtze