[YouTube] China has two massive geographical problems. The lack of sufficient water reserves, and the increasing pollution of the existing ones.
| And the use of excessive fly ash in the Three Gorges Dam — and no doubt others. |
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| [YouTube] China has two massive geographical problems. The lack of sufficient water reserves, and the increasing pollution of the existing ones.
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| Ossoff Promoted Chinese Propaganda Outlet After Stint as ‘National Security Aide' | |
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| [FreeBeacon] Georgia Democratic Senate hopeful Jon Ossoff promoted a Chinese state-run media outlet that has rebuffed U.S. lawmakers' demands to register as a foreign agent. Months after leaving Rep. Hank Johnson's (D., Ga.) office—where he spent five months serving as a "national security aide" with top-secret clearance—in August 2012, Ossoff urged his Twitter followers to read Xinhua News Agency, a Chinese Communist Party-run propaganda organ.
Founded in 1931, Xinhua News Agency is the largest media outlet in China and serves as the communist nation's primary state-run mouthpiece, though it boasts that it will never "yield to the pressure of ideological stigmatization and political bias" in its Twitter bio. The outlet was chastised by U.S. lawmakers in January after paying the social media giant to promote posts that attacked pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. The outlet rebuffed a 2018 Justice Department order to register as a foreign agent. The Trump administration's order followed a bipartisan appeal from senators Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) and Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.). While another Chinese state-run outlet—China Global Television Network—went on to register as a foreign agent in February 2019, Xinhua News Agency has thus far refused. Ossoff came under fire for misrepresenting his time working in Johnson's office during his failed 2017 congressional campaign. While the Democrat claimed that he spent five years as a "national security aide with top-secret clearance," Ossoff later admitted that he worked full-time for Johnson for just two years and held top-secret clearance for only five months. Related: Jon Ossoff: 2020-12-26 More than 2 Million Votes Already Cast for Georgia Runoffs Jon Ossoff: 2020-12-26 Democrats running for Georgia’s two US Senate seats each raised more than $100 million over two months Jon Ossoff: 2020-12-25 Ossoff Refuses to Release ‘Further Financial Information' After Controversial Payments Surface | |
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| China: Three Gorges dam hits highest level, anxiety grows among public |
| 2020-08-24 |
| h/t Instapundit [India Blooms News Service] - The dam recently recorded the largest inflow of water in its history. Following the incident, officials even assured people the water level would not be breached. Inflows to the world’s largest hydro-electric dam reached 75m litres of water a second, according to state media. By Thursday morning, 11 outlets of the dam had been opened to discharge 49.2m litres of water a second, the largest release since its construction, reports The Guardian. Parts of China witnessed heavy flooding for the past two months. Officials have repeatedly assured that the dam can withstand the flow of water. A breach of the dam, a controversial and unprecedented feat of engineering along the Yangtze River, would be embarrassing for China, which took 12 years to build the megaproject, displacing millions and submerging swathes of land, reports The Guardian. The Three Gorges dam, which can handle inflows of about 98.8m litres a second, is already approaching its capacity. Officials expect water levels in the reservoir, whose dam was built to withstand a water level of 175 metres, to reach 165.5 metres on Saturday, reports the newspaper. Meanwhile, officials have carried out evacuation process in many parts of the country. |
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 [ST Daily] At 4:00 a.m. on August 20, 2020, the water level of the Cuntan Hydrology Station of the River Upstream Hydrological Resources Survey Bureau of the Yangtze River Water Conservancy exceeded 191.41 meters, with a maximum flow of 74,600 cubic meters per second. At 8:15 a.m. on August 20, a flood peak appeared at the Cuntan Hydrology Station, with a water level of 191.62 meters and 8.12 meters above the guaranteed level, the highest flood level since the station was built in 1939.Flow into Three Gorges Reservoir Hits Record Science and Technology Daily reporter Tang Ting Correspondent Zheng Li: The reporter learned from the Water Bureau of the Yangtze River Water Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources that the storage flow of the Three Gorges Reservoir rose to 72,000 cubic meters per second at 12:00 on August 19. Previously, the maximum storage flow of the Three Gorges Reservoir was 71,200 cubic meters per second on July 24, 2012. It is predicted that the Three Gorges Reservoir will have a storage flood peak of 75,000 cubic meters per second on August 20. Under the influence of strong rainfall, the upper tributaries of the Yangtze River, Minjiang, Tuojiang, and Jialing River all suffered from overinsurance and above floods. Currently, Minjiang and Tuojiang have all been turned back, and Jialing River is passing the peak. The upper reaches of the Yangtze River include Luzhou, Zhu Tuo and in-Tan stations with a guaranteed water level. (Translations by Reverso) |
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| Locals scramble to higher ground as world's largest dam faces mounting pressure |
| 2020-07-29 |
| [9News.com.au] The Three Gorges Dam spans the Yangtze, Asia's longest river, which has become a raging torrent with storm water pouring into the reservoir of the dam at 60 million litres per second on Monday night. On Tuesday morning, dam operator the China Three Gorges Group said water flow into the reservoir fluctuated between 50 million and 60 million litres per second. And the peak flow has not eased, adding more than ten trillion litres to the mega-dam in just 10 days. All arteries leading from the Yangtze River remain deluged by the third big flood this summer. The China Three Gorges Group say they plan to hold as much water in the dam as possible to buy time for cities downstream to build up their defences. According to local reports, the dam's operator has indicated there are 13 days left before the reservoir will fill to the brim. The China Three Gorges Group lifted the dam's floodgates on the weekend to discharge the reservoir to block the expected flood starting from Monday. "Slight deformation" on some peripheral parts of the structure was reported by local media last week. But the China Three Gorges Group said this year's floods were "severe but not unprecedented" and no match for the reinforced concrete structure. |
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| h/t Instapundit [Forbes] - Rising demand, floods, insect infestations, and rumors of spoiled inventories are all contributing to China’s developing food related woes.
But agricultural production, lest anyone forget, is subject to the biblical forces of floods, fire, pestilence, and a host of other variables, some of which are right now upsetting China’s delicate food stability. The world’s most populous nation will certainly not run out of food, but prices are rising and hints of tightening supplies are beginning to appear. Things may get worse before they get better. Three headline issues are challenging China right now: floods, pestilence, and inventory problems. Above average rainfall and rising floodwaters are not just threatening to compromise China’s gargantuan Three Gorges Dam; rain and flooding are already disrupting rice, wheat and other crop production in the provinces all along the entire Yangtze River. Perhaps this is why China, which holds just over half of the world’s wheat inventories and is the globe’s second largest producer of wheat (behind the European Union), has already imported more wheat in the first half of 2020 than it has in the first half of any year in the past decade. In the month of June alone, China’s single month import volume of wheat from all sources was the highest in seven years. According to the USDA, China is not only the world’ second largest corn producer (behind the United States), it will also hold a full sixty five percent of the world’s corn inventories at the end of this crop year.
Furthermore, corn prices in China have risen to 5 year highs even though China has recently sold more than 1.4 billion bushels of corn out of state reserves, which would indicate there is a definite issue of some sort with China’s corn supply. The USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service points to an unusually early and intense infestation of Fall Army Worm in June as the likely cause of China’s current corn angst. Overall, the past few months have seen China increase its imports of pork, soybeans, soymeal, wheat, corn, sorghum and prepared/frozen foods from the United States and elsewhere. China can’t feed itself; it needs the world’s help, especially if its domestic production and inventories are compromised.
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| China Says Worst of Flooding Still to Come as Situation ‘Severe' |
| 2020-07-28 |
 [Yahoo Finance] China warned that the worst of the deluges that have led millions to be evacuated may be yet to come, after a third wave of floods formed in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River on Sunday."The flood control and flood fighting situation is severe," China’s water resources ministry said in a statement. "The new peak may appear later." Authorities ordered the Three Gorges Reservoir to save its water-storing capacity in preparation for more flows, and forecast another three days of torrential rain in the southern region. China’s south has been battered by severe floods after water levels reached records. More than 2 million people have been evacuated this month along the Yangtze River, Asia’s longest, with 142 dead or missing since the flooding began in June. It has also caused over 116 billion yuan ($17 billion) in damages, and impacted more than 2.4 million hectares (6.1 million acres) of crops in July. The Three Gorges Reservoir is expecting water inflows to surge to about 60,000 cubic meters per second by about Tuesday. The reservoir level was at 159.46 meters as of Monday, down from 164.18 meters about a week ago. Its maximum capacity is 175 meters. |
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| China's Third Peak of Flooding This Year Hits Yangtze River | ||
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| [Epoch Times] Since early June, heavy rain has hit the river basin area and large swathes of southern and central China. Floods and mudslides have been reported in over 27 provinces and regions. To protect the cities, Chinese authorities opened dikes and dams to discharge overflowing stormwater from rivers and lakes into rural areas, which caused tens of millions to lose their homes. By evening July 27, the peak will reach Three Gorges Dam, China's largest, according to the MWR. In central Hubei Province, stormwater inundated cities. Especially in Jianshi county, Enshi city, flood waters reached into residential compounds. In rural areas, the floods submerged houses and farms. In downtown Jianshi, the floods washed away cars and people’s valuables. At least two people died and three were missing in Jianshi. Authorities said the flooding in Hubei was the worst in over a hundred years. As flooding overwhelmed Nanjing city in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, local authorities recently admitted that a state-run construction company, Jiangning Urban Construction, had dug into a dam located on the Yangtze River’s tributary, the Qinhuai River, in order to build about ten restaurants and bars. The construction, which reached half the dam’s height, has damaged the structure and could cause an embankment breach if the dam collapses. Thanks for the gift...how’s the restaurant coming? Nanjing, downstream of the Yangtze, is home to roughly 10.31 million. Since early July, part of the city has been inundated by floodwaters. On July 18, the city reported that the flooding was at the highest level since records were kept in 1954. The idea with flood control is to drain down the reservoirs in the off season, to allow for flood water. But, they'd rather make money generating electricity 24/7/365.
Excessive Rainfall in China: Three Gorges Dam and Other Yangtze River Dams Spill Water
According to the Three Gorges Corporation, the water level in the reservoir reached a record high flood season level of 164.18 meters on July 19. The previous high level reached during the flood season since the dam became fully operational in 2012 was 163.11 meters. The reservoir is designed to hold a maximum water level of 175 meters. As of 26Jul 19:37 EDT the water level is 180.66 meters, less than five meters below the top of the dam: Current Level, and the flow is 48,400 cubic meters per sec, likely the maximum possible.
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| China admits that the Three Gorges Dam has deformed ''slightly'' in recent floods |
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| Floods kill 14 in China as water peaks at Three Gorges Dam |
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| [Al Ahram] At least 14 people have died in the latest round of seasonal rains and flooding in southern China, as soldiers and workers built makeshift barriers with sandbags and rocks Saturday to keep the Yangtze River and its tributaries at bay. Three floodgates of the Three Gorges Dam that spans the Yangtze were opened as the water level behind the massive dam rose more than 15 meters (50 feet) above flood level, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The dam was holding back about 45% of the water, Xinhua said, citing China Three Gorges Corp. Upstream, 11 people had been killed in Chongqing as of Saturday morning, China National Emergency Broadcasting said in an online report, citing the municipal emergency agency. More than 20,000 people had been evacuated and 1,031 homes destroyed. Three landslides in Dunhao town in a mountainous part of Chongqing left six dead, the city's Emergency Management Bureau said. The bodies had been found by Friday evening after more than 200 people were dispatched for a search and rescue operation. Rainfall in the town of Dunhao totaled 39 centimeters (15 inches), the bureau said. |
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| China’s Three Gorges Dam is at severe risk of breaking |
| 2020-07-18 |
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