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Time and Tide: Rising Tide #10 Ahead of the flooding, 180 people relocated from old Kai county to the new district each day on average. The new county seat is about four times the size of the old one. [Dec 06 2007]

Time and Tide: Rising Tide #9 Ahead of the flooding, 180 people relocated from old Kai county to the new district each day on average. The new county seat is about four times the size of the old one. [Dec 06 2007]

Time and Tide: Rising Tide #8 Wrecking crews had to demolish about 2.5 million square metres of floor space to prepare the old Kai county for the flooding. Like the other cities and towns before it, old Kai county had to be completely demolished in…

Time and Tide: Rising Tide #7 Wrecking crews had to demolish about 2.5 million square metres of floor space to prepare the old Kai county for the flooding. Like the other cities and towns before it, old Kai county had to be completely demolished in…

Time and Tide: Rising Tide #6 The richness of the street life in the ancient Kai county was intoxicating. The contrast with the bland surroundings of the new urban district, built on higher ground two kilometres down south, could not be greater. One…

Time and Tide: Rising Tide #5 It is estimated that two cities, 11 counties, 116 towns and hundreds of villages had to be completely demolished and flooded due to the construction and operation of the Three Gorges Dam. Kai county, which is about 1,800…

Time and Tide: Rising Tide #4 Between June 2003 and November 2008, the water level behind the Three Gorges Dam was raised three times from 135m to 156m and then 172.3m. These occasions go unmarked, with the passage of time and rising tide marked only…

Time and Tide: Rising Tide #3 Between June 2003 and November 2008, the water level behind the Three Gorges Dam was raised three times from 135m to 156m and then 172.3m. These occasions go unmarked, with the passage of time and rising tide marked only…

Time and Tide: Rising Tide #2 Between June 2003 and November 2008, the water level behind the Three Gorges Dam was raised three times from 135m to 156m and then 172.3m. These occasions go unmarked, with the passage of time and rising tide marked only…

Time and Tide: Rising Tide #1 The Three Gorges - the Qutang, Wu, and Xiling Gorges - region is historically famed for its steep cliffs and dangerous rapids. All that changed in June 2003 when the Three Gorges Dam began storing water, creating in its…