For several years to come, though, the diverted waters at the Three Gorges will run fast.
Voith Hydro, makers of the vast turbines fitted to gargantuan dams like the Three Gorges in China, is also involved.
Residents point to a spot where they say the factory dumps polluted water at night, which flows into the Three Gorges Reservoir.
The meeting was inaugurated in presence of Mr Shan, director of the Chinese State Administration of Heritage in the Three Gorges museum.
Perhaps no project better exemplifies this challenge than the Three Gorges Dam.
At the end of a Yangtze cruise, you can also visit The Three Gorges Dam, which is one of the most spectacular modern engineering feats.
In China it's putting up an 800, 000-volt line, the most powerful ever, to move 6.4 gigawatts 1, 300 miles from a station near the Three Gorges Dam to Shanghai.
Later this year the Yangzi will be blocked and diverted at the site of the Three Gorges dam, a giant project that will turn the 600 kilometres below Chongqing into a lake.
The company is involved in two more dams, in Uganda and Laos, which are expected to receive World Bank funding, and it has helped build enormous reservoirs such as the Three Gorges Dam in China.
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Authorities also said that no damage was observed at the massive Three Gorges Dam, located on the Yangtze River, several hundred kilometres east of the epicentre.
Companies involved in the accusations include China Three Gorges Corp and China Unicom (CHU).
That overtakes the second-place Three Gorges Dam, which cost a mere 203.9 billion yuan.
The two countries share the Itaipu hydroelectric dam (still the world's largest until China's Three Gorges is completed).
Tanaka suggested that for starters the world needs each year to build 90 utility-scale concentrated solar plants, 17, 000 windmills, two Three Gorges Dams, and 18 nuclear plants.
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