Book Review: 'Before The Deluge'

Deirdre Chetham's book "Before The Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges" is a "quiet epitaph" for the region to be submerged by China's massive Three Gorges project.

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February 14, 2003, 5:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

When all is said and done, Chetham writes, the project will submerge "at least thirteen cities, 140 towns, 1,350 villages, 657 factories, and approximately 74,000 acres of cultivated land under about 300 feet of water...The slow-motion destruction of the Yangtze river towns, the environmental consequences of stopping up one of the world's longest rivers and questions about the dam's viability have preoccupied activists both in and out of China for years."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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