Water levels at China’s Three Gorges dam are at their highest ever as months of torrential rain overwhelm the country’s flood defences and threaten its economic recovery.
In the last few months southern China has suffered its heaviest rainfall since 1998 when floods killed more than 3,000. The upper reaches of the Yangtze river are facing their fifth round of flooding this summer, in what Chinese state media has dubbed a “once-in-a-century” event.
The flow rate of water into the massive Three Gorges dam was at 75,000 cubic metres a second on Thursday, topping the previous 2012 record of 71,200, according to Chinese state media.
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