Three Gorges reservoir braces for flood

Photo taken on July 5, 2018 shows water discharging from the Three Gorges Dam, a gigantic hydropower project on the Yangtze River, in central China's Hubei Province. At 8 a.m. of July 5, the reservoir faced an inflow of 51,000 cubic meters per second and an outflow of 40,000 cubic meters per second. The first flood of the Yangtze River this year has formed on its upper reaches. (photo:Zheng Jiayu/Guangming Picture)