Hoover Dam “seeps” and thats with 80 years of dry time... 3 Gorges is a disaster waiting to happen ... 175 meters of water!!! held back by Chinese concrete ....
And this ringing endorsement...
Officials behind the massive Three Gorges Dam are preparing to plug any holes in the project
Well, no problem there... the MSM will blame it on George W. Bush.
Yup. An almost 600 feet wall of water 420 miles wide put together by standard sub-standard Communist materials and labor.
They seem to be under the impression that just because they spend a billion bucks on it that that fixes the problem.
Spending the money <> a fix necessarily.
Cracks appeared in this thing shortly after construction when they were filling it initially. THen they 'repaired' the cracks.
now the ground around the sides is softening. Reportedly, there are hundreds of tons of metal junk in the reservoir. The landslides create mini-tsunami's in the water and eventually are going to push this junk onto the backside of the dam.
If the cracks don't weaken the structure first.
And if the sides don't wash out first.
There are so many ways this can go wrong and it'll be one of the greatest disasters in human history. Millions will die, at least, maybe tens of millions.
Xinhua is even on their case about it. During a Xinhua investigation, they found hundreds of problems. The govt promised to fix > 100 of them. They've to date fixed about 13 according to a news report, Times of London I think.
The people living around the dam talk about the earth shaking and their houses and barns developing big cracks from the strain the land is under trying to hold back all that water.
Disaster waiting to happen. How else can one describe it??