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The Three Gorges Dam project is slated for completion in 2009 (the dam itself was finished last year), but this Discovery Channel story says that local climatological and meteorlogical changes caused by the dam are already observable -- noticeable changes in rainfall now are expected to increase in magnitude as the project completes.
If you read that first linked page all the way to the bottom, you'll find some more links to environmental changes that are likely to occur because of the dam: a loss of silt deposits at the mouth of the Yangtze near Shanghai, and the likely disappearance of a major fishing area in the East China Sea are only two of the larger threats being monitored.
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