As the Yangtze River enters its dry season, a large section of the Tianxingzhou River in Wuhan is exposed and cars are driving on the river bottom. According to water expert Wang Weiluo, this is the legacy of the Three Gorges Project, which is ultimately the result of the Chinese Communist Party‘s “transformation of nature”.
Recently, a video of a section of the Yangtze River in Wuhan drying up into sand dunes has been circulating on the Internet, sparking public concern. A recent video posted by Free Asia shows a section of the Yangtze River drying up to the bottom in Tianxingzhou, Wuhan, and cars driving on the bottom of the river as if they were driving in a desert.
According to a netizen in Wuhan, the dried-up section of the river is a secondary channel of the Yangtze River Tianxingzhou, the main channel is not dried up, but the river is also much less water than in previous years.
In February, a mainland netizen who took a video of Tianxingzhou exposing the river bottom said that a local elder told him that this sub-channel was also originally watered and navigable, but now it has dried up.
The netizen lamented, “The once species-rich, aquatic Yangtze River seems to exist only in teaching textbooks.”
Wang Weiluo, a water expert living in Germany, told the Epoch Times on March 17 that the videos and photos of the Yangtze drying up that have been circulating online are true. There is a river island in the middle of the Wuhan section of the Yangtze River, which divides the Yangtze into two parts, one for the main channel and one for the secondary channel. The main channel is deeper and the secondary channel is shallower. Netizen’s photo of the drying up of the secondary channel.
Wang Weiluo said the Chinese Communist Party built the Three Gorges Dam at the Time to be able to store flood water in the reservoir and then release it during the dry season, but now it simply cannot be done.
He said that the actual situation is just the opposite, as the Three Gorges Dam cannot hold large floods during the flood season, and when it comes to drought, the dam stores up water for power generation, aggravating the drought downstream, with serious consequences.
He also noted that the Yangtze River flooded a lot last summer and the water level was very low during winter, with a big gap between the two, “The sand in this channel this year may have something to do with the sand washed down from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River last year silting up here, because it’s all relatively new sand, and there’s no plants or Life on it, as if it’s new sand silting up.”
Wang Weiluo also noted that the official Chinese Communist Party media have largely failed to report on the low water level in Wuhan this year. Before Wuhan was closed last year, the Chinese media reported on the Yangtze River’s exposed bottom and claimed that Wuhan had an additional beach to play on.
It is well known that the CCP is accustomed to using this kind of mourning happy report to cover up disasters and fool the Chinese people.
The serious drying up of the Yangtze River has also shocked many overseas Chinese. Independent economist “Leng Shan” said on March 15 that he had lived in Wuhan for a long time and had hardly ever seen such a situation.
“According to Leng Shan, the Three Gorges Project is the cause of this situation, as the Three Gorges Project accelerates the release of water during the flood season, leading to increased flooding in the lower reaches of the river, and the storage of water for power generation during the dry season, turning the lower reaches of the river into a desert and depriving the river of its natural storage function. The river has lost its natural storage function.
The Twitter account “Financial Cold Eye” posted: “After Tiananmen Square turned into the Sahara, the Yangtze River bed in Wuhan also turned into a desert, and the bottom of the river can be visited by the public, which is due to the Three Gorges water storage and power generation.
A mainland netizen responded, “My Family is located in the Yangtze River tributary downstream of the Three Gorges, and to be honest, the flow of water in our side of the river has really decreased over the past few years. Last year there was a drought, and the wells in my hometown that had been producing water for more than a decade dried up.”
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