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Record flood year stokes fears about safety of China’s ageing dams | South China Morning Post

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The collapse of a dam at a small reservoir in China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on June 7, 2020, could be a harbinger of the way increasingly extreme weather is testing the nation’s infrastructure. Many of the country's 94,000 ageing dams have been tested by recent heavy rain and flooding. China has raised it…

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