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When did Dr. John Snow come up with the consequential scientific breakthroughs? (He created a map of cholera cases and linked them back to a single public water pump on Broad Street)
1854
How many years did it take to build the Three Gorges Dam?
8
When is "Big Dam Era"?
1935-1965
How many dams are in China?
22,000，世界一半的dam都在中国
When did the Three Gorges Dam complete?
December 2015
What is the long-term ecological consequence of perennial irrigation canals?
Waterlogging and salinization of soil.
When did the flush toilet invented?
1596
What are results of malaria？
fatigue, fever, death
How did the victims of cholera died？
victims died of dehydration as a result of uncontrollable vomiting and diarrhea
What is the approval rate of the plan of the proposal of building Three Gorge Dam?
67.75%
What was thought to create cholera in the middle of 19th century?
the foul smells from the sewage.
where did the dwellers in early 19th century London pump their domestic water?
underground and Thames river.
What cause the population growth in industrial cities in Europe and North America in 19th century
germ theory+sanitary revolution
Which ancient civilization (mentioned in RG) occupied Indus River Valley?
Ancient Harappa Civilization
What is the total output of the Three Gorge Dam?
22 gigawatt.
Why it is more suitable for people to live in Asian Minor instead of central Africa?
Because the standing water needed for mosquito reproduction is scarce in Asian Minor, so it is not a good place for mosquito to live and reproduce.
What did foreign engineer do after they realize the possibility to build an enormous dam in the Yangtze river to produce a huge amounts of electricity?
the United States Bureau of Reclamation submitted plans to the pre-revolutionary Republic of China and even trained some Chinese engineers in hydroelectric dam construction in the United States
Why the United States Governments agreed to finance the project (Indus River LMEST)
Hoping to win the Cold War allegiance of Pakistan, newly formed when Great Britain’s South Asian colonies gained independence in 1947
Where is the nearest place to the earliest archeological remains of hominids?
the rainforest of central Africa
Why human population densities in intensely malarial regions—specifically, the rainforests of sub-Saharan Africa—remained low?
疟疾的抗体不是永久的，所以一生可能会得很多很多次疟疾，即使加入了quinine的modern treatment出现了，也没办法保证一生不会再得
How did the Three Gorge Dam increase the erosion both upstream and downstream?
the storage of water behind the dam led to a seventy percent increase in riverbank collapses and landslides upstream, and the scouring of the riverbed caused by pressurized water released from the dam has lowered the water level downstream
What are some characteristic of out modern water system?
expensive to install and maintain, dependent upon an enormous industrial foundation that supplies a complex of chemicals and energy, 并不经常与周围环境的水文环境相适应
Why we believe our ancestors evolved in a warm arboreal environment?
our hair less; our binocular vision; our opposing thumbs
What are some benefits of building Three Gorge Dam?
下游的flooding少了; 并没有影响navigation因为有ship lift ，3000吨的船都能lift; 符合了设计者的预期，助力中国成为世界第二大经济体
What did human in Roman Empire do to avoid malaria?
avoiding malarial areas as much as possible; draining swamps and wetlands, which they thought emitted disease-causing “miasma”; simply tolerating the effects but relying on agriculturally driven population growth to compensate