{"id":26625,"date":"2008-01-16T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:36:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:36:10","slug":"1625-china-issues-warning-on-faulty-dams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/1625-china-issues-warning-on-faulty-dams\/","title":{"rendered":"China issues warning on faulty dams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of the roughly 87,000 dams in China, more than 37,000 were in a dangerous state, the report said, adding that the three-year plan will cost 27 billion yuan (US$3.7 billion).<\/p>\n<p>The plan aims to make urgent repairs to often hastily and poorly built dams from the Mao era as climate change increases the threat of weather extremes and flooding.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The design and construction quality of many of these dams contain congenital deficiencies, and they are now old and in serious need of repairs,&quot; deputy Water Resources Minister Jiao Yong was reported as saying. &quot;A large number have hidden dangers.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;As the global climate heats up, weather extremes like torrential rain increases and as society and the economy develops downstream of dams, the potential danger gets greater and greater,&quot; Jiao added.<\/p>\n<p>See <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/planetark.com\/dailynewsstory.cfm\/newsid\/46443\/story.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost half of China&#8217;s nearly 90,000 dams are dangerously unstable and in urgent need of repair, Reuters reported the government as saying on Tuesday, as it unveiled a three-year repair 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