The Dam Project is the biggest hydraulic engineering project in the world. The dam is located at Sandouping, the middle section of Xiling Gorge. The earth was broken in 1994. The project includes: the main work, power plant, flood discharge silt sluice, sand discharge get, a twin 5-step ship lock and a twin elevator for ships. It’s estimated the Project will cost 230,000 million U.S. dollars. The purposes of the Three Gorges Project are flood control, electricity generation improvement of navigation and water transference from the south to the north. The Dam will be 2,335 meters long, 18 meters wide, and its bottom will be 130 meters wide after completion. The water has risen 66 meters and will rise 40 more meters by 2009. This is at the dam site so it will rise 36 at the first gorge, 24 at the Wu Gorge and 12 at the western most gorge, thus forming a 600-kilometer long reservoir with a storage capacity of 3,990 million cubic meters after 2009. So, now is the time to come.