Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "$28.3 Billion USD Three Gorges Dam Has Failed | Tofu Dreg Construction Quality |Drought u0026 Flood (2)" video.

  1. The Soviets did the same in the 1960s by diverting water away from the Amu Darya or Oxus river in Central Asia for cotton irrigation, which fed water annually to the Aral Sea (previously a giant freshwater lake, despite the "sea" suffix). This was the Soviet's, "mankind's engineering to conquor nature", a similar sentiment echoed by the CCP over their even larger hydrological construction, the Three Gorges Dam. By 2000, more than two thirds of the Aral Sea had shrunk, the remaining water was too salty for the native fish to live in and the previously thriving fishing industry on it had vanished and in the semi-arid climate of the steppe, the exposed lake bed of millions of hectares had become exposed and a dust-bowl harbouring toxic levels of pesticide residue (such as DDT whose toxic bi-products remains in the soil for over 300 years) had become airborne with the dust, affecting the health of everyone living in that area. How is the Three Gorges Dam going to environmentally play out? Too early to tell if it's going to be a disaster as bad or worse than the Aral Sea, but time will tell.
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