China is almost finished with the Three Gorges Dam, it's biggest construction project since the Great Wall. The Dam, btw, is visible from every satellite in space.
The dam is a mile and half long and creates a reservoir 370 miles up the Yangtze River.
China says the $28 billion dam will help reduce the frequency of killer floods in the lower Yangtze region. In the process, however, it will displace more than 1.2 million people from about 1,200 villages. At least they knew it was coming.
A little more than 1/10th of those displaced were sent packing a long distance with no sufficient payback.
The dam is 606 feet high....and
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