Tag: Three Gorges Dam, Category: Environment

Chinese Engineers Propose World’s Biggest Hydro-electric Project in Tibet

The Guardian reports on a proposal to build a hydroelectric dam in the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River which would be one a half times the size of the Three Gorges Dam: Zhang Boting, the deputy general secretary of the China Society for Hydropower Engineering, told the Guardian that a massive dam on the great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo – the Tibetan name for the river – would b

May 25, 2010 1:56 AM

Sensitive Words: Sichuan Earthquake, Xi Jinping

As of April 22, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function). Sich

April 22, 2013 8:56 AM

Return to River Town

Peter Hessler, the former New Yorker correspondent in Beijing, also wrote a best-selling book in 2001, River Town, which

February 27, 2013 10:57 PM

Water Shortages: Desalination vs. Conservation

Seawater desalination may offer a promising supplement to diversion of freshwater to China’s dry north-east, especi

February 11, 2013 2:47 PM

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