The Chinese government’s success in sparing downstream populations from floods had been overestimated
LONDON: This is with reference to Shahid Javed Burki’s article of June 13 titled “Chinese investment in water projects”. The Three Gorges dam is an environmental catastrophe. The Chinese government’s success in sparing downstream populations from floods had been overestimated and it has also failed to manage droughts downstream. The river is ecologically dead, and the resettlement of 1.4 million people has still not been completed. Large dams are no longer fashionable. Such projects have massive long-run external costs.
Nadir El-Edroos
Published in The Express Tribune, June 15th, 2011.
