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>Highest water level and rate of inflow in history
>Inflow plateauing, water level expected to continue to rise for another week

>145m is the flood control level, anything above that is bad
>150m and above causes cavitations to start from the massive horizontal pressure
>We are already over 165m
>170-175m is super danger zone, real possibility of dam failure
>180m is where water will just spill over the top, and dam will definitely fail if that happens just due to basic physics, it's a gravity dam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_dam

>Outflows are hampered by silt/sediment getting trapped in the spillways, look at how the red line trends down every time they open it up more
>They would need to bring it back down to 145m to even be able to de-silt, and that ain't happening anytime soon

>And the rain still comes

Homework for /smg/, if the dam does go China is of course fucked, but how fucked is the rest of the world when all those factories and other manufacturing goes bye bye overnight