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Argument: The TGD causes damaging landslides

Issue Report: Three Gorges Dam

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Wang’s one-story, brick-and-concrete home rests, she says, on increasingly unsteady earth, weakened and waterlogged as rising waters turn the Yangtze into an ever-broadening reservoir behind China’s mammoth Three Gorges Dam.
‘The house has become crooked. Water seeps through the floor and there are cracks growing here, here and here,’ said Wang, pointing to the ceiling, a storeroom and a rock wall with crevices three fingers wide. At night, ‘I can feel the vibrations. I walk round and round the room, and I worry.'”