Three Gorges Dam

Three Gorges Dam, which spans the Yangtze River in central China, was constructed between 1994 and 2012 to produce electricity and increase river shipping capacity. Since opening, it has been the world's largest power station in terms of installed capacit with 22,500 megawatts. Its construction also caused a massive relocation upstream — 1.24 million people were forced to move and 13 cities, 140 towns, and 1350 villages were at least partially flooded.

30.823056°, 111.003333°

Source imagery: NASA / Google Timelapse / Planet

[marciomartin]

In China this is development, in Brazil they call it a crime against humanity!

[komolkovathana]

Magenta/white dots expand, more people like to live nearby rising reservoir (?!?) Now, become large urban/city. Three gorgeous (cities) dam.

[sujitkumar]

Cool make same shorts for other places

[altoship]

Dam name and country name or place ????. Answer any....I'm grateful to you

[TokoTeni]

Earth rotation slows down 0.06 second..the day is long

[ElHeffe]

Doesnt look that big from here
😂
P.s. To all these dilusional people complaining, go live w out elec for couple years...then lets hear from ya😂😂😂

[clarencewilliams]

It was beautiful & flourishing, and now it looks like it has cancer😢

[ShyamSunder-zree]

even in Thirupati all the works government is supposed to be doing is done by temple 😂😂
stop putting money in hundi, donate to poor and needy Hindus.

[mykegoh]

And they said it was collapsing. 😂😂😂😂😂

[brunocastro]

Houve um aumento do volume de água num trecho, crescimento urbano diminuindo um déficit habitação das regiões migratórias entre outras coisas boas.
Quem não concorda, vende sua casa e vai morar ao relento no mato para não ser hipócrita!
Fica a dica!

[Raptorsified]

I love the smell of forced evictions and flooding in the morning

[marcodena]

China is at least 3000 years ahead of USA and Western Europe. Then comes Turkey, then the rest.

[อ.มนตรีเสรีรมย์]

ระวังพังง่ายเพราะเป็นเส้นตรง มันควรจะโค้ง

[micheal]

Great piece of civil engineering, yet a minuscule amount of archeological inspection done prior to flooding….suspect many important things have been lost…

[keithperdue]

No problem, they'll just spray the trashed land with green paint--drought solved!

[dougmeade]

Impressive feat. Tragedy for those who lost their homes and lives they loved.

[buzzlightyear]

We have a British build dam in india thats 150 years old and crumbling but still standing and under use. We in the southern state of kerela is scared about it but the tamilnadu govt wont let us dismiss the dam cause they want water for farming and utilities. Its about to fail. Its known as mullaperiyar 😢

[康朝順-po]

真的很像大地長了癌症的樣子，
難怪附近地區的氣候開始不正常
這是上天給予的關注（下太多雨）

[shaundachambers]

What was the point in building these three dams?

[mrkiplingreallywasanexceed]

What, we saying it took 15 years to fill up?