BEIJING - Fifteen years after dynamite blasts first shattered the peace of China's breathtaking Three Gorges, the Three Gorges Dam - the pride of China's engineering progress - is nearing completion. But the cannonade of criticism bombarding the world's largest and costliest dam in history is far from over.
In a matter of days the water level in the reservoir on the Yangtze River will reach its final height of 175 meters. With every meter of water filling the concrete coffer the swell of domestic opposition has increased and the voices of its international critics have grown louder.
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