Its such a sarcasm that the 3 Gorges dam ,originally built to harness more energy and control flooding in China , have been unable to resolve the recent flooding in china
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam
http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20110617-284611.html
BEIJING - China has mobilised troops to help with flood relief and raised its disaster alert to the highest level after days of downpours forced the evacuation of more than half a million people in central and southern provinces.
More than 555,000 people had been evacuated in seven provinces and a municipality after rains in recently drought-stricken areas caused floods and mudslides in the Yangtze River basin, the official China Daily said.
State media said that as of Thursday evening, floods caused by the most recent four days of rain had resulted in 19 deaths and left seven missing in Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces and Chongqing municipality.
China raised its disaster alert to the highest level 4, and the government is describing the floods in some areas, such as eastern Zhejiang province's Qianting River area, as the worst since 1955.
Two dikes in the province were breached on Thursday, flooding two towns and 21 villages, Xinhua news agency said.
The official death toll caused by floods and mudslides since June 3 has not been updated since Wednesday, when state media said at least 105 people had been killed and 65 were missing.
Forecasters warned on Thursday that in the coming days rain could bring fresh danger, including in the southwest. The downpours are not expected to ease until Sunday.
In Jiangxi province in the east, troops helped 122,400 residents move from vulnerable, low-lying areas, the China News Service reported on Thursday.
State media have not given a total number of troops mobilised for the relief effort.
In central Hubei province, downpours two days ago triggered a landslide that left six people missing and blocked the Pingdu River, forcing 2,000 residents to flee in case a wall of water burst through the mud and debris.
"No amount of engineering can........."
The amount of polar ice that had melted added quite a lot of liquid water to this earth. This is the additional water that is evaporated into the clouds and then released as rain.
I hope LKY have really sent a team to Holland to study their dykes.
Originally posted by mancha:The amount of polar ice that had melted added quite a lot of liquid water to this earth. This is the additional water that is evaporated into the clouds and then released as rain.
I hope LKY have really sent a team to Holland to study their dykes.
Ya right,blame the weather for the culprit of all the mishaps.It is u this kind of loser who are unwilling to face the failure,that it is the policies of human error that lead to the problem,m cause chaos to the country.
China sucks anyway,enough said.
I thot chinese produce the most billionaires during these few years, where r they? They should be helping their own country peoples.