What are the advantages and disadvantages of the three gorges dam?

Answer 1

Pros:

•Flood Control

•Emissions reductions

•Treating Waste Water

•Generates renewable power

•Transportation

•Creates jobs

•No pollution

•Tourist attraction

•Very powerful; produces a lot of energy

Cons:

•Relocation; millions of people were forced to move

•Threatens river wildlife

•Disrupts heavy silt flows of the river

•Increases the chances of an earthquake by the weight of tons of water

•Catastrophic Failure

•Pollution build up

•Possible landslides

•Expensive

•Destroyed historical sites

•Flood control (the farmers won't have fertile soil if it doesn't flood, so this fits in the pros & cons category.)