{"id":1172,"date":"2016-11-16T13:55:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T05:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2016-11-13T13:55:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T05:55:52","slug":"tajikistans-rogun-building-the-worlds-tallest-dam-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/tajikistans-rogun-building-the-worlds-tallest-dam-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Tajikistan&#8217;s Rogun: Building the world&#8217;s tallest dam &#8211; BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-37929367\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2016\/11\/92385474_raghun_project_976_22.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Images from the Rogun dam in Tajikistan, which is expected to be the world&#8217;s tallest when completed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Tajikistan has begun building what is expected to become the world&#8217;s tallest dam. At a planned 335m tall (1,100 feet), Rogun would be higher than Jinping-1 Hydropower Station in China (305m), reports the BBC&#8217;s Sohrab Zia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Tajikistan, Central Asia&#8217;s poorest country, has suffered from electricity shortages for years.<\/p>\n<p>Rogun is meant to put an end to that, producing enough power to satisfy the country&#8217;s energy needs with electricity to spare for export to Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2016\/11\/92359828_raghun_project_976_5.jpg\" alt=\"The Vakhsh river flows through many steep gorges and managing its strength is one of the engineering challenges\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<p>The Rogun hydropower project will dam the Vakhsh river which flows through many steep gorges in the Pamirs, and managing its strength is one of the engineering challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Guests at a ceremony inaugurating the project released doves in a gesture of peace. Tajikistan&#8217;s downstream neighbours have been fiercely critical.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2016\/11\/92359830_raghun_project_976_18.jpg\" alt=\"Guests released doves in a gesture of peace. Tajikistan's downstream neighbours have been fiercely critical of the project.\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-37929367\">Tajikistan&#8217;s Rogun: Building the world&#8217;s tallest dam &#8211; BBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images from the Rogun dam in Tajikistan, which is expected to be the world&#8217;s tallest when completed. Tajikistan has begun building what is expected to become the world&#8217;s tallest dam. At a planned 335m tall (1,100 feet), Rogun would be higher than Jinping-1 Hydropower Station in China (305m), reports the BBC&#8217;s Sohrab Zia. Tajikistan, Central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,191,192],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-news","tag-tajikistan","tag-tallest-dam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}