The white-haired farmer ran barefoot to his fields at 2 a.m. so he could harvest his crops before the floods came. He was one of tens of thousands of villagers whose homes and fields were about to be engulfed as a dam gushed open to prevent further damage downstream.
. Death tolls and battered homes are fewer than in previous years, but displacement and economic loss are far higher.China’s dams — its primary guard against floods — are coming into question as they face increasing strain. Last week, the governmentin Anhui. On the same day, more than 16,000 people were trapped in Guzhen town in the same province as the waters surged 10 feet high and broke through levees.
China has more than 98,000 dams, according to the Ministry of Water Resources, more than any other nation in the world. Many were built in the 1950s and ’60s and suffer from poor maintenance. Ma Dacong, a waste collector, sits among flooded gear to be disposed of at a tea factory in Shexian, Anhui province.In Shexian, a county that suffered its worst flooding in decades this month when an upstream dam overflowed in the middle of the night, residents said they had been given no warning.
“The water came so fast. We could never have imagined it,” said Shao, 49, the co-owner of a home appliances shop in Shexian who did not give his full name. His relatives and shop employees sat on its front steps, rinsing kitchen and bathroom appliance parts that they hoped to still sell. “If the government just gave us half a day’s warning, I could have saved $14,000 to $28,000 in damages,” Shao said. He’d lost at least $43,000, he said, and had received no government relief, a maddening, if typical, echo in this region.Yin Jianfeng, outside the supermarket he manages in Shexian, says a new checkout system and extra stock were destroyed in the flooding.
Next when they cannot pass their Medical Boards - No more Medical Boards.
'W Pacific subtropical high pressure system that every summer . . system is abnormally strong this year, said Junyan Liu, climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace East Asia, but it is not clear if it is caused by CC.' You went to Greenpeace? LOL Of course it's not clear.
some dams create lakes so big i. e. having enormous mass and are influencing earth's rotation
The CCP are not known for building reliable structures. The cement they use in some buildings crumbles when wet. I'm amazed the Three Gorges Dam survived this long.
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