According to official figures, the venture cost China about $23 billion, but outside experts estimate it may have cost double that amount.More problems were uncovered in 2014 and last year.
The dam has been plagued by reports of floating archipelagoes of garbage, carpets of algae and landslides on the banks along the vast expanse of still water since the 600-foot-tall dam on the Yangtze River was completed in 2006.
Critics also have complained that the government has fallen far short of its goals in helping to resettle the 1.4 million people displaced by the rising waters behind the dam. […]
Even the dam’s ability to regulate the notoriously changeable flow of the 3,900-mile-long Yangtze, one of China’s two major rivers, has been called into question. Faced with a historic drought this spring, cities downstream of the dam have been unable to accommodate oceangoing vessels that usually visit their ports, and about 400,000 residents of Hubei Province lost access to drinking water this month. …
“Faced with a historic drought this spring, cities downstream of the dam have been unable to accommodate oceangoing vessels that usually visit their ports,”
I’m going to check that personally next month - going on a Yangtze river cruise.
“The Slimes had some rare criticism for their Maoist brethren back in 2011”
China is way less Maoist today than the Slimes and our leftists... but I’ll double check next month just to be sure, :)