Floods Hit China As World’s Largest Dam Reaches its Maximum Capacity

Extreme floods have hit China’s Three Gorges dam, which recorded the largest inflow of water in its history.
Inflows to the world’s largest hydro-electric dam reached 75m litres of water a second, according to state media.
The Three Gorges dam, which can handle inflows of about 98.8m litres a second, is already approaching its capacity.
Upstream from the dam, officials in the city of Chongqing, in Sichuan province, evacuated almost 300,000 residents before the flooding.
The flooding threatens...