China's Plan for the Three Gorges Dam Is Expected to

question 17

Multiple Choice

China's plan for the Three Gorges Dam is expected to

• A) Increase damage from the frequent flooding of the Yangtze River.
• B) Provide as much as 10 percent of China's energy needs through hydroelectric power generation, thus reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and particulate pollution from fossil fuel use.
• C) Inundate a trivial amount of farmland, because it is sited in a narrow gorge walled with granite bedrock.
• D) Have minimal effect on indigenous species in the river, because of the history of river contamination that has decimated the river ecology already.

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