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Liputan6.com, Beijing: Flooding along the flow of mud from Wenquan Reservoir in southern China, has killed 50 people. For that, on Sunday (11 / 7), the government evacuated some 9,000 people from the settlements near the water reservoir capacity already exceeds the normal limit.

Wenquan Reservoir in northwest Qinghai Province, is currently holding a volume of water capacity exceeding normal limits. Water capacity has now reached more than 230 million cubic meters. In fact, the reservoir was built only for water capacity of 70 million cubic meters.

If the dam is destroyed, the city of Golmud area of 130 square kilometers and its population reached 200,000 people will be inundated with flood water up to four meters. In fact, the estimated flood heights more in some areas.

Power plants and threatened plants are also damaged. Rail line to Tibet, a distance of 40 kilometers will also be affected.

This reservoir is not maintained properly because the area is frequent droughts. Water levels still rising because of melting ice in the mountains and heavy rains. This condition is expected to continue until Sunday night and the next day.

In southern China, more than 17 million people to flee into the nine provinces resulting from torrential rains that started early this July. Chinese government data showed, about 50 people were killed and 15 people listed as missing. It is estimated that, 42 thousand houses collapsed, another 121 000 damaged, and hundreds of thousands of hectares of crops damaged or destroyed. Initial estimate of losses totaled 8.9 billion yuan or about U.S. $ 1.3 billion. (ANS / Reuters)