The Chinese government has built an enormous dam (The Three Gorges Dam) on the Yangtze River to control flooding and to transform its hydropower into electric power. The project was completed in 2009 and was to have a power-generating capacity of 18,200 megawatts. This enormous capacity enabled China to move into the 21st century with a hydropower bang. Use Internet search engines (e.g. Google, Alta Vista, Yahoo, Info seek, Bing, etc.) to research the following questions:
a. How many people were displaced due to The Three Gorges Dam Project?
b. How many towns and villages have been resettled?
c. What were the environmental costs of this project?
d. What are the socio-economic benefits and the drawbacks of this project?
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