Three Gorges Dam

Question 1

When did work start on the Three Gorges Dam?

Answer 1

1990’s

Question 2

Advantages

Answer 2

• Creates jobs
• Allows large ships to navigate the river
• Provides electricity through HEP
• Protects farmland from flooding

Question 3

Disadvantages

Answer 3

• Roughly 150 towns and 1100 villages flooded
• 1.3 million people forced to move
• River landscape is forever changed
• The lake created could become polluted from industrial waste

Question 4

What river did it dam?

Answer 4

Yangtze river