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Water Inside China's Three Gorges Dam Nears Maximum Levels

posted by martyb on Saturday August 22 2020, @12:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the going-with-the-flow dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Al Jazeera:

Water levels at China's giant Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river are inching closer to their maximum after torrential rains raised inflows to a record high, official data showed on Friday.

With 75,000 cubic metres per second of water flowing in from the Yangtze River on Thursday, the reservoir's depth had reached 165.6 metres (543 feet) by Friday morning, up more than two metres (6.6 feet) overnight and almost 20 metres (65.6 feet) higher than the official warning level.

The maximum designed depth of China's largest reservoir is 175 metres (574 feet).

Authorities raised the discharge volume to a record 48,800 cubic metres per second on Thursday to try and lower water levels, and they might have to increase it again to avoid the possibility of a dangerous overflow.

Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai are all downstream...

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Saturday August 22 2020, @02:19AM (3 children)

    by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Saturday August 22 2020, @02:19AM (#1040235) Journal

    And which god do you mean?
    If I had to worship someone, I'd pick Lei family of the storm gods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigong [wikipedia.org]
    They are all cool.

    Concerning Tibet: they picked a wrong tech tree for research long time ago so they are weak now.

    Concerning Hong Kong: the decolonisation proceeds somewhat slowly lately.

    Concerning Uyghurs, a Turkic tribe: maybe they could live better if they return back to Turkey... Or, maybe not, considering a fate of Armenians and Kurds. Is still Turkey a member of NATO and big ally to all liberal democracies?

    Taiwan, well, that's really number one: I vote for AMD any day!

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 22 2020, @02:26AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday August 22 2020, @02:26AM (#1040239) Journal

    Concerning Uyghurs, a Turkic tribe: maybe they could live better if they return back to Turkey...

    The Uighurs aren't from Turkey; they and the Turks are both from the Altai Mountains in Central Asia.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @02:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @02:51AM (#1040252)

    You are sick.

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by PiMuNu on Saturday August 22 2020, @06:14AM

    by PiMuNu (3823) on Saturday August 22 2020, @06:14AM (#1040294)

    > Concerning Hong Kong: the decolonisation proceeds somewhat slowly lately.

    Try disappearing a few more booksellers - I heard that helps.