May 29 2018 

China Disappoints In
The Chinese have been building

dams that generate

hydroelectricity for the last 70

years and have managed to Balancing Its Dams’

construct 22,000 of them up to

this point in time (Lewis).

Profits And Their Costs  
Although the objective was to

improve the country as a whole

and to minimise the pollution

during the production of

electricity, there are countless

negative impacts those methods

have that are being neglected with

the creation of every single new

dam. Supplying such an immense

country with electricity

doubtlessly is a challenge,

however the country inevitably

has to be aware of the

environmental and humane prices

it has to pay. China's biggest dam (Source: Brittanica).

Zheng Su, one of the were promised a compensation visiting Fengdu’s temple. The

approximately 4 million people along with new farming tools, government promised the

who were relocated due to the those were mainly just empty whole city that even though it

creation of a dam, lived in Fengdu promises (Schwartz). would be flooded, they would

before he and his family were compensate for it and build one

forced to leave their house and “I have lived in Fengdu my whole at our new home that will be

properties behind. During the life and I have such a strong very much like the one we

construction of dams, although connection to this city. Its knew.” Unfortunately, the new

they're able to control floods, destruction breaks mine and my temple that was supposed to

dams also cause close family's heart, having in mind  that makeup for the destroyed one,

environments to be flooded, its history goes back almost 2000 has rather been perceived as a

greatly increase the risk of years”, says Zheng Su.  “tourist attraction” and locals

landslides and cause a vast have been starting to find other

increase in water pollution Since Fengdu has such a rich and places for their practices of

(Watts). Having worked as a long history, historical and worshipping (Schwartz).

farmer his whole life, Zheng Su religious sites were also part of the

had no choice but to leave city.  Dams that are built in Chinese

everything he had built up for rivers affect nature in a way

himself behind. Although they  “Part of our daily routines was  that in the end, Chinese

citizens 
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The city Fengdu, now uninhibited. (Source: Freaky)

are the ones who have to suffer interbreed, which is a crucial part benefits counterbalance the

from the consequences. As dams of their viability. About a decade innumerable drawbacks. 

are such ponderous ago, the Chinese River Dolphin

constructions, especially China's was proclaimed extinct.

biggest one, the “Three Gorges Oblivious of the price China has

Dam”, the dam’s environment is to pay for the “clean” ways of

a lot more prone to earthquakes producing electricity, other

(Lewis). Generally, the dams countries begin to let Chinese

interrupt nature’s norms: as a companies construct dams along

dam stores water during the wet rivers. Already, internationally

season and releases it when the problems like the dam being a

dry season starts, a river’s natural threat to different animal species

cycle is disrupted. begin to surface (Scientists).

Zheng Su tells us that his Zheng Su wonders who is

neighbours, who were fishermen, effectively included in by

were obliged to learn a different “everyone” when the promise is

profession as the dam lead to the made that “everyone” will profit

decrease of the amount and from the country's choice to

quality of fish that once thrived continue building the dams.

in the Yangtze river (Ono). As

dams are an insurmountable The question that needs to be

obstacle, the concrete wall makes answered sooner than later is

it impossible for water species to  whether or not the 22,000 dams’ 
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