Project Report : The Three Gorges Dam

The South-to-North Water Diversion Project in China, established by Moa Zedong in 1952, is a water diversion project that would divert 44.8 billion cubic meters of water annually to the drier north of China ("South-to-North Water"). The project would link China’s four main rivers the Yangtze, Yellow River, Huaihe and Haihe. China plans on doing this by constructing three diversion routes moving through the south to north ("South-to-North Water"). It would stretch across the central, eastern and western parts of the country ("South-to-North Water"). This project is expected to cost around $62 billion dollars and take around 50 more years to complete ("South-to-North Water"). By trying to divert the rivers and create an equal distribution of water, the project raises many environmental concerns but has many positives. This paper will evaluate the different perspectives of the ecomodernist and resilience theory. This will be shown by analyzing each perspective, evaluating the different concerns and analyzing how each perspective would respond to the water diversion project.

The article “Down go the dams” by Jane C.Marks aim to provide an informative view on the current pending issue on Dams. The article starts out my mentioning the important nature of dams in our society. For example, Jane C.Marks states that today about 800,000 dams operate worldwide as well as the fact that most were built in the past century, primarily after World War II. Furthermore, the author lays down informative facts about dams such as the fact that dams control flooding and their reservoirs provide a reliable supply of water for irrigation, drinking and recreation which are all very important to society. In an economic standpoint, although it is very high maintenance dams provide jobs for people. The

The Grand Coulee Dam, located in Eastern Washington, was one of controversy, risk, and a point of no return. While the water captured made the desert area blossom in agriculture and it powered some large cities, it created a sense of accomplishment, that humans can control Mother Nature. While many people were very excited for this new construction – which gives power and resources - at the time, some thought it should not be allowed, they are not proud of containing the Columbia River. In this analysis, I am going to focus on the economic and social effects that the Grand Coulee Dam created in its build.

An old adage-plan the work and work the plan, in essence this is the key to successful project management. Project Managers (PM) must first plan out the project and then monitor and control the execution of the program work. There is a tendency for projects to short change the planning process. This is a common mistake. The time spent properly planning will result in reduced cost and duration, and increased quality over the life of the project. Using tried and true best practices for a PM will provide assurance that the program /project will be beneficial and successful.

Key outputs in this phase are the Projects Requirements definition, the capability and capacity assessment, project delivery strategy and the Project Management plan. The role of the construction/ project manager in this phase is, once project authorized, it is the project manager’s responsibility to implement the project. In terms of the Project Requirements Definition the, the project manager refines and details the project authorization and details what the project is required to accomplish in terms of the products/services the project will deliver and the scope of work that needs to be done. The project manager must provide project team members, corporate sponsors, and other stakeholders with a common understanding of what the project is all about, and is the authoritative reference document that defines the project.

The paper is divided into three sections, the first of which will establish a timeline of events. This project background will serve as a case study for the analysis in the following section that will be structured such that each of the previously mentioned facets will be independently analyzed and contrasted with project management principles. Finally the paper will conclude with a summary of the analysis and recommendations based on

The Three Gorges Dam is an unfinished project which will be the largest dam ever constructed on the planet Earth. It is situated in China on the third largest river in the world – the Yangtze. The dam has been debated over since the 1919 and is still a hot topic of debate because of its many pros and cons. In 1994 construction began on the dam, and it is expected to be finished by the year 2009. The massive dimensions of the dam are mind boggling and its functions – if the dam actually works – are truly remarkable; however, with such a large structure also comes difficulties, sacrifices, and cynics. The goal of this essay is to lend an understanding of the dam itself, the prospective benefits of

Archeologist and historians criticize the building of the Three Gorges Dam because it is socially and environmentally destructive. This is because when the dam is finished, nearly 2 million people will have been displaced and 4000 villages, 140 towns, and 13 cities will have been swallowed up. Also, monuments, and priceless archeological discoveries of this countries culture will be lost

There should never have been an increase in the size of the dam if it was going to cause such a great impact on surrounding environments. The location where the water was released is now dead and still somewhat submerged under water. The organism have not returned, new organisms may have come but in terms of an ecological factor should not be there. Another option would have been to build the dam up instead of out, or even create a new damn in an environment that wouldn’t have been as effected, and they could have either joined the dams, or separated the flow from the Hinze dam, and the new dam could provide water to those areas not receiving water from the Hinze dam anymore. Also close by to the Hinze Dam is the Nerang Dam, so why not expand the Nerang Dam. This would have given the increase in water that the Hinze dam needed, without the that the Hinze Dam has left on the environment. I don’t if the experts who made these decisions new exactly where the water from the Hinze dam would go when it was released, and they probably thought we will worry about it when it comes to it. Or they may have known, but that may have been the area that would have been affected least, so that’s why it was chosen to flow there. So far however nothing has been done to repair the damaged area, and it has almost become a new type of environment because of

The purpose of this paper is to show provide a case study of the Enlarged Cotter Dam project in Canberra, Australia. This paper will use the 5 dimensions of project management as the guide and layout.

In addition, a dam could control the Colorado River during times of flooding or in cases of low amounts of water. The construction of this dam would include a massive reservoir to control silt levels, so it would sink to the bottom of lake beds instead of allowing it to clog down river irrigation canals. Another productive feature of the dam would be to supply electrical power by installing hydroelectric generators which were seen as a way to salvage the initial cost (Lusted 14). Finally, there was a national court case held to arbitrate how much water Arizona, Nevada, and California would receive which concluded in each state acquiring 7.5 million acre feet of water (Lusted 14). To commence the project geologists mapped river currents, geographical location, rock type and after two years, it was determined that the dam was to be built at Black Canyon, Colorado (Lusted 19). Consequently, blueprints were created, then a prototype was manufactured

The Banqiao Dam was built on the Ru River in the western Henan province of China (Typhoon Nina–Banqiao dam failure, 2014). The dam had been completed in 1952 as an effort to control the Yellow River by providing flood prevention, and electricity production (Typhoon Nina–Banqiao dam failure, 2014). The dam was built with a storage capacity of 492 million cubic meters, enough to sustain a 1,000 year flood (Typhoon Nina–Banqiao dam failure, 2014). Shortly after construction, cracks emerged in the dam (Fish, 2013). From 1955-1956, the dam was reinforced utilizing Soviet engineering specifications (Fish, 2013). Upon completion, the dam gained the moniker “Iron Dam” (Fish, 2013) as a nod to its indestructibility.

It seems that people time and again have the wrong impression of what a project manager does. It is not about being able to create a compound plan to hang on the wall. It is not about setting up conference after conference. This is about understanding a big

INTRODUCTION: Water assets building is growing massively today. Dams have the most vital part in using water assets. They were developed taxing year before increasing present data about hydrology and hydro mechanics. All through the historical backdrop of the world, dams have been utilized effectively as a part of gathering, putting away and overseeing water expected to manage human advancement. Dams have a lot of positive and negative impacts on the earth. Their advantages like controlling stream administration, subsequently forestalling surges, getting local and water system water from put away water and creating vitality from hydro control. While dam give noteworthy advantage to our general public, their effect on the encompassing incorporates resettlement and migration, financial effect, natural concerns, sedimentation issue, security angles and so on. Notwithstanding their vital social and natural advantages, it is vital to minimize the negative impacts of the hoover dam on the earth with respect to feasible advancement.

This assignment will address three areas of project management that stood out while taking this program. Project integrated management, project communication, and project stakeholder management. A discussion on how they are executed will be presented. As more courses were taken during this project management graduate program, many of the project management concepts became clear and revealed more of the interdependencies and intricate dynamics that are required for successful project management.