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3 Gorges Dam
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Advantages Disadvantages
- generates power
- stops floods from killing hundreds of people
- good for tourism
- takes care of 10% of China's power needed
- used for transportation
- stops flowing trash moving through the river
- downstream nutrients and sentiment flow reduced
- huge possibility of causing earthquakes
- cause of multiple rock slides
- thousands of people had to be relocated