1. The Controversy Behind China’s Dams Sophia Luong Megan Kleinedler Eric Sorenson

2. Why is this important to research? The goals of dam construction in China are to achieve the maximum possible benefits by minimizing the negative effects on the social, environmental, ecological aspects and cultural relics through fully and rationally utilizing the nature resources Calls attention to possible negative impacts of a supposed cheap and safe method of energy.

3. Question Do the positive impacts of China’s dams outweigh the negative effects on China and downstream countries?

4. Background Info on Dams Energy  Electricity  Trap water flowing downhill and use the energy to turn turbines (http://www.colorado.edu/GeolSci/courses/GEOL3520/Topic7/Topic7.html)http://www.colorado.edu/GeolSci/courses/GEOL3520/Topic7/Topic7.html

5. History of China’s Dam Projects 1949 Heavily campaigned dam projects during Communist era “Engineering achievements”, in actuality, led to thousands of collapsed dams -Banqiao dam Poor construction/planning http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/quake/photo/1999/09/28/0000000858

6. Three Gorges Dam Largest hydroelectric dam in the world Benefits: - Flood control - Hydroelectric power Costs: - 1.9 million people displaced - environment - cultural sites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam#History

8. Debate!! Megan Kleinedler Chinese farmer forced to resettle in Cambodia Head coordinator of Three Gorges Dam river project vs.

9. Cost

10. Resettlement http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/china.50/asian.superpower/three.gorges/ Roughly 70 percent of the country’s 10.2 million "reservoir relocatees" were still living in "extreme poverty” after the resettlement.

11. Environment http://www.terradaily.com/images/china-beijing-pollution-traffic-nov-2005-afp-bg.jpg http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/2091.html

12. Local Culture and Natural Beauty http://www.threegorgesprobe.org/probeint/ThreeGorges/photos.html

13. Countries estimated to have the largest irrigation systems - 1997: Irrigation In East andSouth-East Asia: Most irrigated countries: China - 51.8 million ha Thailand - 5.0 million ha Indonesia - 4.8 million ha Japan - 2.7 million ha Vietnam - 2.3 million ha Least irrigated countries: (less than 300 000 ha under irrigation) Brunei Darussalam Cambodia Hong Kong Laos Mongolia Source: FAOSTAT Database, UN Food & Agriculture Organisation,1999

14. Navigation http://www.china.org.cn/english/2005/Oct/146970.htm

15. Power Generation http://www.terradaily.com/news/energy-tech-05zi.html http://blogs.ittefaq.com/tech/archives/2005/10/ Solar Coal Hydroelectric

16. Flood Control http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/news/releases/02/10_21_02.asp http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-09/02/xinsrc_ee46be1bdf714d779c990f61fe8db79c_flood.jpg Disease