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**DagoIgnog** · 07-24-2010, 10:07 PM

A Chinese man rides a tricycle at a bus station submerged in the flooded Yangtze River in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Record-high water levels at China's massive Three Gorges Dam have called into question Beijing's claims that the world's largest hydroelectric project could withstand a 10,000-year flood. The water level reached 518 feet (158 meters) Saturday morning, just 55 feet (17 meters) from the reservoir's maximum capacity of 573 feet
(175 meters). -- PHOTO: AP

A man paddles on a makeshift raft at a bus station submerged in the flooded Yangtze River in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. China has for years promoted the Three Gorges Dam as the best way to end centuries of floods along the Yangtze River basin and dismissed complaints about the enormous environmental impact of the $23 billion reservoir that has displaced more than 1.4 million people. -- PHOTO: AP

A father pulls his child out of the flood waters close to the Yangtze River. -- PHOTO: AFP

07-24-2010, 10:07 PM	#2
DagoIgnog Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 559 Senior Member	A Chinese man rides a tricycle at a bus station submerged in the flooded Yangtze River in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Record-high water levels at China's massive Three Gorges Dam have called into question Beijing's claims that the world's largest hydroelectric project could withstand a 10,000-year flood. The water level reached 518 feet (158 meters) Saturday morning, just 55 feet (17 meters) from the reservoir's maximum capacity of 573 feet (175 meters). -- PHOTO: AP A man paddles on a makeshift raft at a bus station submerged in the flooded Yangtze River in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. China has for years promoted the Three Gorges Dam as the best way to end centuries of floods along the Yangtze River basin and dismissed complaints about the enormous environmental impact of the $23 billion reservoir that has displaced more than 1.4 million people. -- PHOTO: AP A father pulls his child out of the flood waters close to the Yangtze River. -- PHOTO: AFP
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