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CHINA-DAM-THREEGORGES-WANZHOU
A barber who cuts hair for two yuan (0.25 USD), 28 November 2007, points to the planned water-level mark on the wall, a flight of stairs above his home in Wanzhou, the largest city between Chongqing and Yichang downstream to the Three Gorges Dam in China's southwest Chongqing Municipality. Working in front of the place where he was born beside a stairway that once led high up to riverside towns and cities from the Yangtze riverbank below, the 61-year-old will soon have to move as his home in old Wanzhou will be flooded by 2009 when the Three Gorges Dam project is due for completion. Resettlement for residents in and around the dam region began in 1997 with only two directions, up and out. Built mainly for flood control and hydropower, the giant concrete wall built across China's longest river has been blamed for a host of worsening environmental ills to go with longstanding concerns about the 1.4 million people uprooted so far to make way for the reservoir's rising waters. AFP PHOTO/Frederic J. BROWN
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WANZHOU, CHONGQING, CHINA |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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Frederic J. BROWN |
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28 Noiembrie 2007 |
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3000 x 2031 (1.48 MB) |
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