{"id":21879,"date":"2020-08-20T16:34:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T07:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/20\/china-three-gorges-dam-highest-level-hydro-electric-floods"},"modified":"2020-08-20T16:34:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T07:34:21","slug":"anxiety-grows-as-chinas-three-gorges-dam-hits-highest-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21879","title":{"rendered":"Anxiety grows as China\u2019s Three Gorges dam hits highest level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials seek to reassure public after world\u2019s largest hydro-electric dam nears capacity amid heavy floods<\/p>\n<p>Extreme floods have hit China\u2019s Three Gorges dam, which recorded the largest inflow of water in its history, prompting officials to assure the public it would not be breached.<\/p>\n<p>Inflows to the world\u2019s largest hydro-electric dam reached 75m litres of water a second, according to state media. By Thursday morning, 11 outlets of the dam had been opened to discharge 49.2m litres of water a second, the largest release since its construction.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/20\/china-three-gorges-dam-highest-level-hydro-electric-floods\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials seek to reassure public after world\u2019s largest hydro-electric dam nears capacity amid heavy floodsExtreme floods have hit China\u2019s Three Gorges dam, which recorded the largest inflow of water in its history, prompting officials to assure the pu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,65,313,157,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-environment","category-flooding","category-natural-disasters-and-extreme-weather","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21880,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21879\/revisions\/21880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}