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Article: Past dam disaster casts a shadow over Three Gorges. (dam project in China)
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- World Watch
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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New evidence of a catastrophic dam failure in China heightens concern over the Three Gorges project, which aims to erect the world's largest dam across the Yangtze River. According to a 1995 report by Human Rights Watch/Asia, between 86,000 and 230,000 people died in August 1975 following a massive collapse of 62 dams on the Huai River drainage in Henan province of eastern China. The collapses were also a major cause of the regional famine and epidemics that followed in the wake of the Huai floods, and which affected an additional 10 to 12 million people. The government suppressed coverage of the catastrophe in the Chinese press, and it was apparently not discovered by ...