What is the water storage project (1)
- Three gorges dam
Where is the three gorges dam (1)
- Yangtze River, China
What are three advantages of the three gorges dam (1)
- Flood Control
- Power generation
- Boat navigation
How does the three gorges dam help manage flood control (3)
- The flood storage capacity of Three Gorges Dam Reservoir is 22 Cubic Meters
- This capacity can reduce the frequency of major downstream flooding from once every ten years to once every 100 years
- Dam will protect some 15 million people from such deadly waters, as well as 1.5 million acres of farmland.
What groups of people are helped by the three gorges dam flood control (2)
- millions of people living downstream of the dam
- people living in Shanghai, situated adjacent to Yangtze River
How does the three gorges dam improve power generation (3)
- Now the world’s largest power station of 22,500 MW
- 83.7 TWh in 2013 and 98.8 TWh in 2014
- generate enough electricity for 28 million people
What groups of people are helped by the three gorges dam power generation (1)
- supported the whole nation’s electricity usage, including businesses and schools
How does the three gorges dam improve boat navigation (2)
- The instalment of ship locks, helping cruises navigate through the Yangtze river
- Improves 660 kilometres waterway
- Enables 10000 tonnage fleets to navigate between Shanghai and Chongqing.
What groups of people are helped by the three gorges dam boat navigation (2)
- Cruise ship owners, easier to navigate and reach your end goal, more pleased clients, more business
- Shanghai and Chongqing residents, more resources able to be interchanged and used by the population, improving QOL
What are three disadvantages of the three gorges dam (3)
- Environmental
- Resettlement
- Garbage
How does the three gorges dam affect environment in a bad way (4)
- Polluting industrial plants are now submerged under water, letting out toxins
- This means river water (which local residents rely on) is now impure and dangerous
- Transport used to construct the dam released fossil fuels, causing an increase in pollution levels in China
- Surrounding landscape has been changed, plants and wildlife disappeared, historical relics submerged
What people would have negative views about the three gorges dam affecting environment (2)
- Millions of people who live along the Yangtze river, now much more polluted and unsafe.
- Environmentalists who don’t want China’s pollution levels to rise, or ancient relics destroyed
How does the three gorges dam affect resettlement (3)
- 1351 villages removed, 23800 hectares resettled, more than 1.1 million people will have to be resettled
- At least 500,000 haven’t been compensated by the government
- Local residents don’t get the money needed to start a new life somewhere else
How much rubbish has the dam stopped from flowing into the sea (1)
- ten million tons of plastic bags, bottles, animal corpses, trees, and other detritus that otherwise would have flowed out to sea
How much did the dam cost, how long is it and how long did it take to build (3)
$27 billion
10,000 ft long
14 years
What problems does having increased rubbish in the Yangtze river cause, and what types of people are likely to be affected by this (3)
- River biodiversity plummets as species eat the plastic and can’t digest it
- Litter attracts vermin and is a breeding ground for bacteria, which causes species such as algae to grow and block light so plants cannot photosynthesise
- People such as fisherman will see decreased output as species are dying
