Three Gorges Dam (chin三峡大坝/三峡大坝, Sānxiá Dàbà) is the name for a 20 May 2006 brought into damming of the Yangtze in China. The Three Gorges dam is one of the largest reservoirs of the earth. The project is located in the Hubei province between the cities of Yichang and Chongqing. The dam is in the famous three gorges Qutang, Wuxia and Xiling. The project is supported by Chinese companies China Yangtze Power operated and administered.
Strictly speaking, it should be Three Gorges Dam hot as the Absperrbauwerk no dam, but a dam. The designation dam comes from the overly literal English translation of the "Three Gorges Dam", where "dam" but "barrier" and is not "dam".
No other major project in recent years have been so controversial as this barrier in the People's Republic of China. Proponents justify its need with the benefits in flood protection, energy production (hydroelectric power plant) and the improvement of shipping. Opponents fear disadvantages by the environmental impact of geological hazard potential and the socio-cultural consequences of the project.
The Yangtze is 6,380 km with the longest current China and the drittlängste the world. On his way he flows from the Tibetan highlands through the Red basin, then through the three gorges and finally to the level of Yichang, to end with Shanghai into ostchinesische Sea. Its catchment area is nearly two million square km and covers the habitat of one-third of the total Chinese population of 1.3 billion people and 25 percent of China's arable land. The average runoff volume of the Yangtze is 32,500 cubic metres / s (Rhein 2,330 cubic metres / s). He is also one of the key transport routes in China.
The idea of a dam was first 1919 by Sun Yat-sen said. In the 1980s, the project was due to the increasing energy shortages a key project in Deng Xiaopings reform and modernization policy.
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