中国运用大坝改造自然河流流向 — — 目前中国有五分之一的河流，干流流量不如引向水库的水量 — — 已经导致沿河生态系统破坏和350座大型湖泊消失。
China’s reengineering of natural river flows through damming – one-fifth of the country’s rivers now have less water flowing through them each year than is diverted to reservoirs – has already degraded riparian ecosystems and caused 350 large lakes to disappear.