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The Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest hydro power project, built across the enormous Yangtze River in China. The massive project displaced a record number of people- more than 1.2 million. Thirteen cities and 140 towns were flooded while 1,350 villages disappeared under water too. The three gorges Dam is more than 600 kilometers long, and took 17 years to complete. The reservoir created by the dam covers an area larger than Singapore, and the dam's full capacity of 22.5 gigawatts is more than enough to power Pakistan or Switzerland.
The dam has been at the center of much controversy. Even after finishing the $59 billion project last July, the threat of move again. Many consider the dam to be an environmental disaster, as the risk of landslides. Moreover, the water in the reservoir is polluted by the hundreds of factories along the Yangtze that dump their wastes into the river. The construction of the dam has caused massive flooding of the tributaries of the Yangtze too. It is any wonder that there is a lot of argument as to whether the three Gorges Dam is a boon or a curse ?
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