WHEN IT RAINS, IT POURS: China’s Giant Three Gorges Dam Faces Major Test.
via maritime-executive: Sustained torrential rains have caused extensive flooding in central China in recent weeks. Nightmare memories have been revived of 1998, when severe floods left more than 4000 people dead and caused extensive economic damage. Thousands of People’s Liberation Army soldiers have been sent to the Yangtse River basin to provide emergency services to build … Read more