China's super-dam is a disaster waiting to happen

Millions downstream in India and Bangladesh could die if a quake triggers a collapse

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An aerial photo of the Three Gorges Reservoir on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River at Yichang, Hubei province, China. © AP

Brahma Chellaney, a professor of strategic studies at the independent New Delhi-based Centre for Policy Research and fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, is the author of nine books, including "Water: Asia's New Battleground" (Georgetown University Press), which won the Bernard Schwartz Book Award.

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