Three Gorges Dam: Facts & Related Content
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- Experts estimate that construction of the dam may have cost twice the official amount of $23 billion.
- Critics of the dam claim the government has not relocated all 1.4 million individuals displaced by the project.
- The dam's 18,000 megawatt production capacity is eight times the amount generated by the Hoover Dam in the United States.
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