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Time and Tide: The Dam #3 Tapping the power of the mighty Yangtze River has been a long-held dream of many Chinese leaders, including the late Mao Zedong. When fully operational, the Three Gorges Dam's 26 turbo-generators can produce 84.7 billion kwh…

Time and Tide: The Dam #2 In going ahead with the project, the Chinese government agued that the benefits of the Three Gorges Dam outweighed the problems. One of the major benefits has been smoother and faster navigation for ocean-going freighters…

Time and Tide: The Dam #1 Chinese experts estimate the Three Gorges area of the Yangtze River to be about 2 million years old. But it took Chinese officials and engineers just about 15 years to alter the region permanently with the construction and…

Time and tide: Five years behind the Three Gorges Dam Summary: In November 2008, China raised the water level behind the Three Gorges Dam to 172.3m, the highest since the dam began operating in 2003. Though there was another 2.7m to go before…

A child walk in flood water in a village in Bihar, India. THIRST Water is life, and since the earliest days of human civilization, it has also been the source of conflict. As global supplies of fresh water diminish, and human population grows, the…

A dried out tree, later also burned in a bushfire, stands near one of the side creeks of the Lachlan River. Climate change has become a major issue in Australia in recent years. Much of the country's population appears to be losing its traditional…

A drunken sheep shearer lays on the pavement in front of a pub in New South Wales, Australia. As more than 10,000 Australian farming families have had to leave their land as a result of the country's ongoing drought and as the number of farmers has…

A woman cries in grief after seeing a corpse at the edge of the water reminding her of her husband, who drowned in the same river in a flash flood a few weeks before. THIRST Water is life, and since the earliest days of human civilization, it has…

A dead kangaroo hangs from the side of a hunter’s truck in and arid farmland in New South Wales, Australia. Kangaroos are considered a pest because they drink from the irrigation wells that supply local farms. As farmland irrigation systems spread…

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