The biggest dam in the world Three Gorges Dam located in China. The height of 185 meters in length and 2309 thousand meters. “Three Gorges” the most expensive and largest dam in the history of the world hydropower. It rises 300 meters above the water level in the Yangtze River. Construction will last until the end of 2010. For several years, formed the artificial sea length of 600 kilometers.

The project cost is 25 billion dollars. During the construction of the world’s largest dam killed more than 100 people, 1.3 million people have been abandoned with the subsequent flooded areas. On the construction of the dam took 27 million cubic meters of concrete.

Environmentalists still at the beginning of construction stated that the implications for the nature of the region would be catastrophic due to changes in the ecosystem.