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Reservoir running low as Three Gorges Dam irrigates drought areas
By Yang Jian |
May 27, 2011, Friday
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THE Three Gorges Dam will have no water to release to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River by June 10 to ease central China's worst drought in 50 years, Xinhua News Agency reported today.
The world's largest dam will soon run out water in its reservoir after continuous discharge to relieve the drought that has plagued the central plain for months, the report said.
The dam near Chongqing in western China has discharged about 1.2 billion cubic meters of water in the past six days and water levels in the middle and lower reaches of the river have inched up, but experts said the Three Gorges Dam reservoir is too small to end the drought.
The reservoir water level has dropped by two meters, depleting 80 percent of its dammed water, the report added.
Zheng Shouren, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and one of the designers of the Three Gorges hydropower project, said the dam was not designed to relieve the drought. It was built to generate electricity, control flooding and adjust water level for navigation.
The world's largest dam will soon run out water in its reservoir after continuous discharge to relieve the drought that has plagued the central plain for months, the report said.
The dam near Chongqing in western China has discharged about 1.2 billion cubic meters of water in the past six days and water levels in the middle and lower reaches of the river have inched up, but experts said the Three Gorges Dam reservoir is too small to end the drought.
The reservoir water level has dropped by two meters, depleting 80 percent of its dammed water, the report added.
Zheng Shouren, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and one of the designers of the Three Gorges hydropower project, said the dam was not designed to relieve the drought. It was built to generate electricity, control flooding and adjust water level for navigation.
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