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Lessons from China's Three Gorges Dam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Peter Bosshard
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The world's largest hydropower project has reached its final dimensions. Peter Bosshard draws conclusions from the Three Gorges experience.

Fifteen years after construction started, the water level of the Three Gorges reservoir is scheduled to reach its final height of 175 meters this fall. After 27 million cubic meters of cement have been poured, 39 cubic kilometers of water have been stored, and 1.3 million people have been resettled, it is time to take stock.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 7 , Issue 48 , November 2009 , e2
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