Reservoir
Three Gorges Reservoir
The reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam, the largest power station in the world by installed capacity and one of the largest engineering interventions ever made in a river system.
Key facts
- Capacity
- approximately 39,300 million m³
- Installed generating capacity
- 22,500 MW
- Completed
- 2012
- People resettled
- over 1.3 million
Relationships
- Located in: China
Related intelligence
Sources
- World Wildlife Fund / McGill University — HydroSHEDS / HydroRIVERS / HydroLAKES / HydroBASINS. Open — attribution required · CC BY 4.0
- Global Water System Project — Global Reservoir and Dam Database. Open — attribution required · CC BY 4.0
- Peer-reviewed scientific literature — Open-access hydrology, water chemistry and water use research. Public but restricted · Publisher terms — public access, reuse not clearly granted