Three Gorges Largest Dam in The World
Published by Biggest dam in the world, Three Gorges, successfully completed in China.
World biggest dam, Three Gorges Dam, which was dreamed by great helmsman Mao Zedong, is complete successfully and comes in a running condition. This great dam will help in solve the frequent flooding of the Yangtze Jiang and the electricity power has become a major engine for China’s industrial boom.
Interesting facts about 3 Gorges Dam:
1- Three Gorges Dam is 185 meters high and 2309 meters long.
2- Water in Three Gorges covers the area of 1084 km square.
3- Dam tank can holds up to 39 billion cubic meters of water.
4- In the construction of the dam 27.15 million cubic meters of concrete and354, 000 tons of reinforcing steel was consumed.
5- 250,000 workers were employed for the dam construction.
6- The current power plant is 18,200 megawatts, which is nine times more than the maximum performance of the two TimeLine units.
7- 13 cities over 1,300 villages and thousands of archaeological sites were disappeared under dam water.
8- About 1.3 million people were moved into the most ethnically diverse and less fertile areas.
Top 5 biggest dams in the world:
1- Three Gorges (China) – capacity 18,200 megawatts.
2- Itaipu dam Brazil Paraguay border, capacity 12,600 megawatts.
3- Guri Dam Venezuela, capacity 10,000 megawatts.
4- Grand Coulee (USA), output of 6495 megawatts.
5- Sayano dam, Russia, capacity 6400 MW.
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On May 25, 2011 at 11:15 pm
Very interesting article! Now that’s a lot of water being moved!
On May 25, 2011 at 11:19 pm
Chinese government itself admits that the 3 Gorges dam on the Yangtze River Jiang caused some serious ecological, geological and economic problems that need to be urgently addressed.
On May 25, 2011 at 11:26 pm
Interesting information but am little confused as this one gives me different information. Were you given insider information for the above or would you be able to guide me through where you got this information from please???
Would love to read more.
This is what I found about this particular Dam and we could be wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam
On May 25, 2011 at 11:39 pm
Interesting info.
On May 26, 2011 at 3:04 am
Very interesting information. The dam certainly seem to hold a lot of water.
On May 26, 2011 at 4:16 am
Great work well done
On May 26, 2011 at 5:44 am
Very interesting news.
On May 26, 2011 at 6:32 am
Great work
On May 26, 2011 at 8:37 am
dam it!! lol
On May 26, 2011 at 11:22 am
@Aiyanna
well I got this information from a local newspaper
On May 26, 2011 at 11:24 am
@vijayanths
thanks dear
On May 26, 2011 at 11:25 am
@Christine Ramsay
yes this water can drown the whole London
On May 26, 2011 at 11:26 am
@CHIPMUNK
thank you dear
On May 26, 2011 at 11:27 am
@chandrra
yes it is
On May 26, 2011 at 11:28 am
@Saurav Banerjee
thanks a lot
On May 26, 2011 at 11:28 am
@JayWarrior
lol
On May 26, 2011 at 8:04 pm
This dam is in great danger
On May 26, 2011 at 9:50 pm
Why, how you know?
On May 26, 2011 at 11:30 pm
great work here
On May 27, 2011 at 5:39 am
thanks dear
On May 27, 2011 at 11:39 am
Very interesting! It seems to be a mixed bag, some good some bad.
On May 27, 2011 at 12:03 pm
interesting info and China is keen on building more dams.
On May 27, 2011 at 8:40 pm
Wow, that’s a heap of water.
On May 30, 2011 at 10:54 am
good but definitly it has its side effect in the near future.