The Three Gorges Dam, China’s largest, is on high alert as floods triggered by torrential rains wreak havoc in the southwestern part of the country.
Record rainfall in Chongqing has caused flooding in a dozen districts and counties since Thursday, raising the water levels in 29 rivers, state news agency Xinhua reported.
Six people have died in the region which has received over 250mm of rain, according to the Chongqing Hydrological Monitoring Station.
An aerial drone showed a township submerged in muddy waters.
Dianjiang county in Chongqing received 269.2mm of rain on Thursday, the highest in a single day ever.
The rains have affected over 40,000 people, forced the evacuation of several areas and damaged 1,800 hectares of crops, CCTV reported.
An aerial photo shows residents being evacuated from a flooded area in Dianjiang in southwestern China's Chongqing municipality on 11 July 2024 An aerial photo shows residents being evacuated from a flooded area in Dianjiang in southwestern China's Chongqing municipality on 11 July 2024 (AFP via Getty) The rains and subsequent flooding have also disrupted operations at the Chongqing railway station, leading to the suspension of 26 train journeys on Thursday.
The Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters on Thursday raised the flood emergency response to level 3 in the four-tier response system in which level 1 is the most severe.
“As flood preparedness and response enter a critical period, we should strengthen warnings and monitoring and timely evacuate people in areas at risk of geological disasters,” Chongqing’s mayor, Hu Henghua, said on Thursday. “It’s better to be extra careful to prevent any potential losses.”
Rescue workers move residents out of a flooded area in Dianjiang, Chongqing Rescue workers move residents out of a flooded area in Dianjiang, Chongqing (AFP via Getty) Authorities are also facing challenges along the Yangtze river basin as the water level in the Three Gorges Dam reservoir has risen to 161.1 metres, the highest ever in July, according to China’s Ministry of Water Resources.
Heavy rainfall is anticipated in the upper reaches of the river over the next 10 days, with a new round of floods expected to flow into the reservoir around 16 July, Changjiang Water Resource Commission said.
A flood with a peak flow of 45,000 cubic metres per second is forecasted to enter the reservoir on Friday, and two other significant water surges are expected in mid-July.
This sounds like sabotage for me. There are no coincidences. China is trying to get Taiwan off from the Cabal chains, this was planning to happen within a few weeks, and then all of the sudden this happen to China? If the Cabal could bomb the Nordstream piping, then they could bomb the China Gorges Dam as well. The Cabal is desperate. Their days are counted and they know it. They will keep trying everything. So let's keep on alert.
I feel sorry for the Chinese people, since civilians are always the ones who paid the consequences. My prayers are with them.
God Loves You all!
Or,
maybe it is not cabal sabotage and Chinese engineering and maintenance programs really does suck, even on critical systems.
There are plenty of videos about shoddy Chinese quality on many Chinese items, from clothes to housing to electric cars to military equipment. What makes you think that China will not skimp on quality for its major infrastructure projects like dams?
I'll say this as an engineer: if every year we are biting our fingers off in fear that a (what's supposed to be a robustly-designed) dam would collapse just because there is too much water, and whole villages and towns were getting wiped out to probably prevent a collapse, it is a sign of very poor engineering and everyone on that project should be locked away for incompetence.
Cabal sabotage or not, we shall not tolerate the wicked habits of the "allies" of the white hats, else how are we better than the cabal we fight?