Flooding+Disasters1



 ·  **15 million people will be relieved from the threat of floods.**  ·  **The dam's reservoir can hold up to 39.3 billion cubic meters of water (from floods).**  ·  **The dam can help stop flood peak by 27,000 to 33, ooo cubic meters per second.**  ·  **Floods have threatened and killed millions of people in the past.**  ·  **The flood of 1954 killed 30,000 people and left 1 million homeless.**  ·  **Floods have chronically threatened the Yangtze River area- this is evident as floods have bombarded China in 1931, 1935, 1949, 1954 and 1998.**  ·  **This will stop and floods will be controlled, due to the dam.**