The Vanishing

In 1999, I read in a newspaper about the contentious Three Gorges Dam project. China’s leaders had a grand vision of transforming the Yangtze River into the biggest artificial lake in the world in an attempt to control recurring floods and to generate an estimated 10 percent increase in hydropower e...

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Main Author: Ian Teh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing 2017-10-01
Series:Open Rivers
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Online Access: https://openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/the-vanishing/
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