Hong Yulan has fished the shallow waters of Dongting Lake for nearly 30 years, but this summer she is doing something she never fathomed possible: walking across the bottom of her lake.
In a rare admission, the Chinese government has said the Three Gorges Dam -- the world's largest hydropower plant -- is having "urgent problems," warning of environmental, construction and migration "disasters" amid the worst drought to hit southern China in 50 years.
China's Three Gorges Dam may be contributing to the country's drought. CNN's Ramy Inocencio reports.
China's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest water project, was fully filled Tuesday, state media said.
Heavy rain and flooding have exacted a high toll in China this year, and Friday the country faced a new threat from a swollen Yangtze River dam that was dangerously close to capacity.
Chanthu, the third typhoon of the West Pacific season, slowed down Thursday as it made its way over land in southern China.
The giant Three Gorges Dam which spans China's Yangtze River in Yichang, Hubei Province, has withstood the biggest test of its flood control capabilities since it was completed in 2009, according to a senior official.
There could be few more homely or universal scenes than clothes hanging to dry on a washing line.
A landslide on a mountainside in central China earlier this week buried a bus carrying as many as 27 people, police told CNN on Friday.
Senior officials in Beijing are now grumbling that the megaproject on the
Yangtze is turning into an environmental nightmare
Some 5 million have been evacuated, but improved emergency-response planning may have saved thousands
Daring flood rescue in China
A final group of more than 100,000 people will be forced to relocate by the end of next year to make way for the Three Gorges Dam
The Chinese have long dreamt about taming the Yangtze River.
Floods unleashed by torrential rains have killed at least 161 people and left dozens more missing in southwestern China, prompting authorities to put the massive Three Gorges hydroelectric project on alert.
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