Lessons Learned from the Three Gorges Dam
Activity 2 Strategy 2 Scoring Guide: Similarities/Differences of Three Gorges Photos
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Characteristics
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Some Facts on the TGD
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The Three Gorges
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| Construction | Construction will effect many towns along the river | The TGD has created an enormous impact on people’s way of life. Construction goes on for miles |
| Physical Characteristics | This is some of the most landscape in the world. Farmland will be flooded.Aquatic animals will be effected. | Sedimentation makes harbor unusable. |
| Cultural Characteristics | Ancient Buddhist antiquities would be destroyed | People are being displaced |