The Biggest Dam Problem in China

E Jingping, Director of the Office of State Flood Control and Drought Releif Headquarters (The best Dam job in China) has announced that one third of China's dams are defective and at risk of collapsing. (The biggest dam problem in China) China has more than 85,000 dams and if confronted with torrential rain, they pose a very real and serious risk in the dam surrounding areas. In other words, the Chinese are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.In August of 1975 two large dams collapsed in Henan province, killing 26,000 people in the Zhumadian. The cause of the collapse— those dam heavy rains that China always gets. Most of China’s dams were built in the dam 50’s and 60’s. Since the beginning of the dam 2006 rainy season, floods have killed 1,231 Chinese, demolished 650,000 dam houses and have cost an estimated 91.9 billion dam yuan (11,528,570,393.91 USD) in dam losses. But E Jingping pointed out that China’s improved preparedness has kept the dam death toll below the dam national average of 1800.