If you want to see the Three Gorges (the
Qutang, Wuxia and the Xiling) before they are lost for ever
– as a result of the controversial dam project on the
Yangtze, you should aim to see them before November
1^st 2002.  After this date,
there will be a diversion around the Three Gorges and the
Yangtze will not be navigable until after the flooding has
taken place in 2003.