Apparently before modern dams, the levees built by the Chinese to combat floods worsened the situation because the water couldn't flow back into the river
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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The Nile river has always been one that brought silt and fertility, and it's trajectory has NEVER changed.
The yellow river? It has changed for 20 times in the last 500 years, and has only stopped thanks to the PRC creating dams to stop these floods.
These floods literally happened in a way that lead to previously relatively dry land becoming new river basins, it also lead to destruction not only in these new river basins but also the surrounding areas because these river basins haven't even created a basin yet, so where the centuries of consistent flooding of the Nile created an easily predictable area of affect, when the rain hit hard on china you were fucking fucked as any fuck could ever be fucked, and millions fucking died.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_River?wprov=sfti1#Ancient_times look at the image of how much the river moves. There are a lot of people in between the top and bottom line.
That's crazy.
Funny how it is the only one jumping around.
I mean, how does that even work? And it crossed other rivers?!
I’m assuming that this Wikipedia gif is not accurate and is only focusing on that river. In one of the linked floods it mentioned almost destroying the Huai river so I bet you’re right, it doesn’t make sense
nile flood brings fertility
idk the lower one
The question is how. I'm aware that floods spread fertile soil, but why the difference in death.
one is predictable and usually on schedule, the other is not