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4KS Pros and Cons
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Pros: Dams can store rain water or water directly from the river. The dam produces electricity power. The dam controls earthquakes and flooding. Electricity produced by the dam is sufficient to light up Boston, New York, and Washington D.C. 15 million people and 1.5 hectors of farmland will be relieved from floods. Three Gorges Dam is also intended to solve many problems. China is already a poor country, and the dam will reduce pollution and produce an enormous amount of energy for China and hopefully help its economy.

Cons: The Three Gorges Dam has destroyed some cultural artifacts. The environment was greatly damaged while the building of the dam. The dam is badly polluting the river. Lots of animals became extinct because of the dam. Approximately 1 million people have died in the Yangtze River’s notorious floods in the past century. The 400 mile long reservoir of the Three Gorges Dam has flooded 13 cities, 140 towns, 1352 villages, and 100,000 acres of China’s most fertile farm land. So far 1,300 archeology sites have been flooded, including that of the ancient Ba civilization that settled in the Three Gorges area over 4,000 years ago. because of the dam most of the tresures are lost beneath the 185 meter depth of the reservoir behind the dam. The farm land lost had provided 40% of China’s grain and 70% of rice crops. so far the only viable crop able to be produced on such steep terrain has been oranges.

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