The Three Gorges Dam is under new pressure 2
Prolonged heavy rain causes the water level of the Truong Giang River to continue to rise, causing the amount of water flowing into the Three Gorges Dam reservoir to reach 55,000 m3/sec this evening, Xinhua reported.
Many tributaries of the Truong Giang system have overflowed their banks in many places.
Three Gorges Dam releases floodwater, July 2.
Water rose up to the first floor windows of many houses in towns around Ba Duong Lake, part of the Truong Giang River network.
Xu Yongxiang, 45 years old, living in Liufang village on the east bank of Poyang Lake, said there was no clean water or electricity for a whole week.
Floods in China affected 27 of 31 provincial-level localities and nearly 38 million people.
Water levels in 433 rivers in China have reached dangerous levels since June, of which 33 rivers have reached record water levels, the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources said.
China suffers from floods every year, especially in the central and southern regions, but this year’s floods have had a serious impact.
China’s worst flood in the past 30 years occurred in mid-1998. More than 2,000 people died and nearly three million houses were destroyed in this natural disaster, mainly in localities along the Yangtze River.
The Three Gorges Dam was built in 1994-2006 in the section of the Yangtze River flowing through Diling district in Yichang city, Hubei province.
The Three Gorges Dam is expected to control floods on the Truong Giang River, but many experts believe that the project has not met the design goal of flood reduction.
China is sinking in a sea of floods
China is sinking in a sea of floods.
