Three Gorges Dam sees year's biggest flood (1/4)

Flood water is released from the Three Gorges Dam, a gigantic hydropower project on the Yangtze River, in Yichang City, central China's Hubei Province, July 24, 2012. The Three Gorges Dam saw its biggest flood this year on Tuesday, as water from the Yangtze River upper reaches gushed at 70,000 cubic meters per second into the dam's reservoir at 2 p.m. [Photo: CNS/Pi Yajie]